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

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 09:26 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 09:30:58AM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> I agree. (Hmmm -- maybe anything in the 'core' group?) Is there an updated
> version of something like <http://adrian.gimp.org/rpm-graph/> anywhere
> around? I kind of suspect that *anything* which would make the system not
> boot would also cause (eventually) yum itself to get pulled into the
> set to be removed.

I think a reasonable alarm set is > 100 pkgs being removed or glibc, rpm
and python.

the system (esp chroots) do not need kernels to run.

-sv