On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Raul Miller wrote: > > Unfortunately, there are some failure modes we don't have enough > > control over.
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 01:41:51PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > This is the only point during dpkg's operation where a failure of dpkg is > catastrophic. IMHO essential packages should make a 'best effort' to > ensure that they have the highest possible chance of being functional if > this happens. > > We cannot eliminate entirely the chance that an essential package gets > messed up, but we can make it very very remote. Good point. -- Raul
