On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 22:37 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 14:22 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 22 June 2012 13:56, Simo Sorce <simo(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> > How do we make sure that if package manager goes crazy the user still
> > have a way to reboot his system that is not 'press power button for 5
> > seconds' ?
>
> Just make sure the package manager doesn't go crazy. It's just doing a
> simple rpm transaction afterall.
You mean, it's calling a bunch of scripts which run with root
privileges, are written by a wide variety of people with little to no
oversight, and could do absolutely anything?
What could possibly go wrong...=)
Ooh! I forgot 'and which, by design, cannot possibly be run in parallel,
and which must all at least return in order for the transaction to be
considered complete'.
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