On Sunday 23 May 2004 00:06, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > o no GPG signing (kevin just KNEW that was coming, didn't you Kevin? ;) > o no safeties against concurrent usage. two sessions can be "happily" > emerging their way simultaneously with no safeguards in the way.
I'll just say that concurrent useage isn't a big problem in my opinion. I regularly emerge multiple packages simultaneously. The only time I've ever had problems is when I ran out of swap. It's vaguely possible that 2 people could simultaneously emerge --update world, but I suspect it wouldn't matter much. It's pretty rare to see packages kill each other. I'd be more worried about someone changing make.conf than emerging a second package. Besides, how often are 2 root users using the machine at the same time, and why? Maybe the best fix would be to allow root to only be logged in via the console if that was a concern in a given environment. That would resolve the issue of multiple emerges, and it would secure the server against other things too. Remote admin could still be possible (for servers and stuff) via remote admin cards... Kev. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
