On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 11:55 AM Qiyu Yan <yanq...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> 在 2021-05-05星期三的 07:44 +0200,Dan Čermák写道:
> > przemek klosowski via devel <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> writes:
> >
> > > Is that something we need to worry about? I couldn't think of any new
> > > rules to impose on repositories, but maybe dnf should have more
> > > explicit
> > > warnings when it sees multiple versions of the same package, or at
> > > least
> > > a way to show such versions.
> >
> > Or how about teaching dnf that only certain repositories are allowed to
> > be used for updates (with an allowedlist for exceptions)? Then
> > microsoft
> > or any other third party repo could put hello-5000-1 into their repo
> > and
> > it could never compromise your system, as dnf would not consider the
> > 3rd
> > party repo a valid update repo for a base system package.
> >
> > That would require dnf to track where it got the package from though
> > and I am not sure if it does that at the moment?
> This reminds me of an idea named Vendor Change from Zypper of openSUSE
> https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Vendor_change_update
> This approach seems to solve our problems here?

Well, we do have the sticky vendor feature in DNF, DNF on openSUSE has
it switched on by default[1]. If we want to have this feature turned
on in Fedora, we could look at having it switched on.

[1]: 
https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/openSUSE:Factory/libdnf/libdnf-0.55.0-Switch-allow_vendor_change-off.patch?expand=1




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