Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
> Mikkel L. Ellertson írta:
>> Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
>>  
>>> He was a bit tricky to
>>> use chattr +i on /bin/login and some other progs.
>>> BTW, although rpm complained that it cannot replace
>>> those, why isn't it prepared for such scenarios?
>>> RPM is made for Linux, it should certainly know
>>> about special filesystem flags and handle them.
>>>
>>>     
>> How should rpm handle it? Rpm has no way of knowing why the
>>   
> 
> How?
> 
> 1. be able to specify special flags in the specfile and apply them upon
> install
> 2. detect if the filesystem doesn't handle such specials and make note
> of it in the rpmdb
> 3. clear them before uninstalling or upgrading
> 4. detect if it was modified, report it with rpmv
>     (skip this check if the rpmdb indicates it, see 2)
> 
> 
Why? What would the advantages be? Do they overcome the drawbacks of
rpm being able to change a file that you set the immutable flag on?

Mikkel
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