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  • From: Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>
  • To: sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery] Update Options . . .
  • Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 21:17:51 -0700

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On Friday, October 24, 2003 11:56 am, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>:
> >
> > Thoughts, comments, opinions?
>
> The main problem with this (that I see) is how do you know when to change
> the severity? Lets say I add a patch to fix some security hole, so I set
> FIX_LEVEL="security", I then fix a small bug in the package: Should I
> change FIX_LEVEL to "bug", or leave it at "security"? If you only wanted
> "security" updates, and hadn't updated between those two fixes, and we now
> changed FIX_LEVEL to the latest change, you wouldn't get the security fix.
>
> Now, lets say that we get past that problem there, and it's now a year
> later and I do a version update, so FIX_LEVEL="version", and you hadn't
> updated back then when the "security" and "bug" fixes came out for some
> reason, now the FIX_LEVEL is just "version" and you recently decide to
> update, but the level is only "version", which doesn't match your paranoid
> setting of "security" only, you won't receive the security update (which is
> probably included in the new version) nor the spell bug fix.
>
> I think it would just add an extra layer of complexity. Also, don't we
> already support some SECURITY file/field?
>
> I'm not sure if this is quite what you were thinking, so feel free to
> lambast me with your whit. ;)
>
> -sandalle


Hmm, OK, back to the drawing board I guess. Dang it. :^)


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