Re: Apt error (tried other mailing list & Google), please help!

GuidoZ <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:44:55 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.linux.conectiva.apt-rpm
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I haven't commented on this yet, however, even as a Linux n00b I doubted this.

Panu said:
> > (http://lists.freshrpms.net/pipermail/freshrpms-list/2003-June/004761.html)
> > The "security" aspect of moving rpm in the above link is just so much
> > bollocks...

Matthew said:
> Doubly so if you then make a symlink to it.

If you're moving something for "security", then how would making a
shortcut to it fix a problem that the moving created, yet still
keeping the "security" intact? =P That's just plain foolish.

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On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:42:56 -0400, Matthew Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 08:37:55AM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > > (http://lists.freshrpms.net/pipermail/freshrpms-list/2003-June/004761.html)
> > The "security" aspect of moving rpm in the above link is just so much
> > bollocks... Anyway, as for your actual problem - the " Unable to determine
> 
> Doubly so if you then make a symlink to it.
> 
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