What about smartpm?

[Konstantin Ryabitsev]

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 13:27 -0800, Tim Fenn wrote:
> > Yeah, and this is still unsafe, because downgrading is inherently,
> > implicitly unsafe.
> > 
> > 1. You can downgrade into a vulnerability
> > 2. Downgrading often breaks, since newer version can do things in %post
> > that make downgrading to a workable state impossible
> > 
> 
> Can I not reverse this argument to state:
> 
> Yeah, and this is still unsafe, because upgrading is inherently,
> implicitly unsafe.
> 
> 1. you can upgrade into a vulnerability
> 2. upgrading often breaks, since newer versions can do things in %pre
> that make upgrading to a workable state impossible.
> 
> And have it be equally valid?  ;)

No.

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Konstantin Ryabitsev
McGill University WSG
Montréal, Québec