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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] A possible risk ?</H1>
<B>Maarten Vanraes</B>
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<I>Thu Feb 9 00:58:56 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>Op donderdag 09 februari 2012 00:36:11 schreef David W. Hodgins:
><i> On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:23:58 -0500, nicolas vigier <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">boklm at mars-attacks.org</A>>
</I>wrote:
><i> > The problem is the bad update, not that it was allowed without root
</I>><i> > password. Updates should not hose the system, and that's why there is a
</I>><i> > policy on no new versions in update when possible, and qa tests.
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</I>><i> The main problem I've seen with updates breaking a system happens when
</I>><i> there is a large number of updates (such as kde), and the mirror you're
</I>><i> updating from synced in the middle of the main repositories being updated.
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</I>><i> I think the best solution would require the primary repositories to have
</I>><i> some sort of a lock, so that they cannot be synced from in the middle of
</I>><i> an update, or better yet, some way to have all updates put into a hidden
</I>><i> directory, until they have all been loaded, and then have a single
</I>><i> operation that puts all of the updates into the active directories without
</I>><i> allowing any downstream mirror to sync while that's happening.
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</I>><i> Regards, Dave Hodgins
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well, you can't control the mirrors, but iinm pterjan tried to minimize it
yesterday...
we'll see how things turn out
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