Op donderdag 09 februari 2012 00:36:11 schreef David W. Hodgins: > On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:23:58 -0500, nicolas vigier <[email protected]> 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
