On Aug 4, 2006, at 8:17 AM, Roberto Mello wrote:
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 04:07:23PM -0700, Blake Barnett wrote:
Even these are overkill, unless configured otherwise APT defaults to
caching all packages that are installed in /var/cache/apt/archive,
That's an unreasonable assumption, unless you install ALL your
packages
directly through apt, which is not very efficient. dselect and
aptitude
default to asking if you want to remove downloaded installed packages.
He was speaking of APT.
But you're right, you could be lucky and the package could still be
lying
around /var/cache/apt/archives, good thinking.
besides, if you download the package you are very likely to get a
newer version than what you're running and this could lead to
unexpected behavior.
Why? If he was willing to remove the whole frigging package just to
get
that init.d file, I don't see how that could happen.
True. In production you may be a little more paranoid.
Samba configuration hasn't changed in eons.
I was speaking in general of all packages. For example, to
illustrate my point, I had a problem bite me because of this exact
scenario, the PAM file for SSH was mutilated and I pulled it out of a
newer package, SSH had just had a security fix and one of the options
I was using was removed or something (I don't remember exactly now),
anyway it resulted in a trip to the data center.
-Blake
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