Re: delaying upgrades dangerous?
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 03:59:36PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> but there is a problem that affect all debian mirrors:
> old packages exists with a corresponding Packages/Sources file
> when new packages are moved in, old packages are removed
> the Packages/Sources file may not match while this transition is
> happening. This means that if you apt-get during this period, the
> Package/Sources file will want to get OLDPKG when it was just removed.
> Hopefully this is an accurate description from my understanding.
That sounds pretty bad; surely there could be someone updating at any
given time, so this problem must occur pretty frequently. Are there
really no safeguards against this? Perhaps taking the mirror offline
or otherwise locking it might be necessary.
Ken
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Ken Irving, fnkci@uaf.edu
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