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RE: [cobalt-security] Slightly off Topic- PKG files
- Subject: RE: [cobalt-security] Slightly off Topic- PKG files
- From: Carrie Bartkowiak <ravencarrie@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 14:05:00 -0400
- List-id: Mailing list for users to address network security on Cobalt products. <cobalt-security.list.cobalt.com>
On 04 Sep 2001 09:32:50 -0700, Jeff Lovell mumbled something like:
>>I agree. There should be a way to cleanly backout patches. But
>>this
>>can pose another problem to users as well, such as disk space
>>allocated
>>for only RPMs. This partition would have to be rather large. It
>>is a
>>problem we are aware of and working on clean solution for it.
How about just keeping backup RPMs for the last 3 patches/upgrades?
Doesn't have to be all of them, just the most recent ones. (Since usually a backstep like this would just entail going back before one or two patches.)
I think this might be manageable size-wise; unless all 3 patches were the OS mega-upgrades. ;)
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CarrieB
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