On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 07:06:10PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 08:15:54AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > I think the worst case would be a telnetd linked with a broken > > shlib (or in the case of telnetd, perhaps a missing or broken > > /usr/lib/telnetd/login) that gives a security hole. If you wish to > > minimise downtime, the proper way to do it IMHO is to have certain > > packages flagged as daemons, and they should be upgraded (by whatever > > program that is in charge) one by one. > > Under what circumstances would this be in effect during an > upgrade but not otherwise?
The fact that dpkg does not deconfigure a package which depends on another deconfigured package is a bug in dpkg. This should not be used as an excuse to not deal with things correctly in maintainer scripts. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
