On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Rolf Fokkens <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > As the maintainer of bcache-tools I ran into the situation that a collegue > accidentally removed bcache-tools, resulting in a system that failed to boot > after installing and using a new kernel. dnf logs showed that the package > had been erased, with a bunch of other packages. It happened 3 weeks ago, > and the colleague did not recall what he actually did at that time. > > I'm considering to make bcache-tools protected (by including a config file > in the package in /etc/dnf/protected.d/) to prevent accidental erasure of > the package. Is this the proper way to prevent this situation? >
I would recommend making this a separate subpackage, and having that package recommended by the main one. It ultimately needs to be possible to be able to remove it, so making the specific file removable via a subpackage is the way to go for that. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
