[Mageia-discuss] A possible risk ?

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op donderdag 09 februari 2012 00:36:11 schreef David W. Hodgins:
> On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:23:58 -0500, nicolas vigier <boklm at mars-attacks.org> 
wrote:
> > The problem is the bad update, not that it was allowed without root
> > password. Updates should not hose the system, and that's why there is a
> > policy on no new versions in update when possible, and qa tests.
> 
> The main problem I've seen with updates breaking a system happens when
> there is a large number of updates (such as kde), and the mirror you're
> updating from synced in the middle of the main repositories being updated.
> 
> I think the best solution would require the primary repositories to have
> some sort of a lock, so that they cannot be synced from in the middle of
> an update, or better yet, some way to have all updates put into a hidden
> directory, until they have all been loaded, and then have a single
> operation that puts all of the updates into the active directories without
> allowing any downstream mirror to sync while that's happening.
> 
> Regards, Dave Hodgins

well, you can't control the mirrors, but iinm pterjan tried to minimize it 
yesterday...

we'll see how things turn out