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
Yes, see 3.
What would be the point of having a special attribute if programs
can just ignore it?
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
