[Yum] Stupid User Stories (was:Yum munging systems)

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Sat May 28 06:30:58 UTC 2005


Matthew Miller said:
> On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 07:24:25PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>> Trivial version of dont-eat-me plugin:
> [...]
>> protect = ['glibc', 'yum', 'rpm', 'python']
>
> It's probably good to list this stuff explicitly, but actually, I think
> all you need to protect is the yum package itself, because an attempt to
> remove glibc, rpm, or python eventually tries to remove yum too.

Like said, this was just a trivial/mock-up version of the thing. There's a
whole lot more to protect than just those to keep a system in bootable
state, which I think would be a reasonable target for such a plugin.

   - Panu -




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