\_ Am 13. Oct, 2000 schwäzte
sinck@ugive.com so:
\_
\_ > Well, it depends on the level of autoinstalling there is. Do you
\_ > really want some script *hopefully* not bungling your sendmail config
\_ > on the way by? Your kernel? Personally, I'd want an option that said
\_ > "prep everything, then send email with suspected degree of brokenness
\_ > if just launched".
\_
\_ I'm presuming rpm does this :).
I believe current rpm logic stops at "Hey! You're missing a
dependency." None of this "do the right thing" stuff I keep hearing
about debian.
\_ The step that needs to be automated is
\_ finding out about security update, downloading them and their dependencies
\_ and then doing rpm installs. As for the update not hosing the system,
\_ that's mostly dependent upon the skill and knowledge of whoever built the
\_ rpm :).
It reminds me of a perl module, that when you go through the standard
installation spell warns:
Issuing rm -rf / ...
[pause]
Oh hey, just kidding about that. But you didn't read the
source, did you? You just blindly installed, right?
Sometime in the future, I will go ahead and put that in."
Nothing like heart failure in the morning.
David
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