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Everything installs

Posted Jun 23, 2007 1:16 UTC (Sat) by arjan (subscriber, #36785)
Parent article: Counting vulnerabilities

This is why distros like Fedora want to get rid of the "everything" install options... if people are installing mostly only the pieces they need (at least in broader groups), the exposure of the user becomes a lot lower. From a distro pov, it reduces the risk of a hole in some of the more obscure apps to affect a large numbers of users.

well one of the reasons at least (the otherone probably is "what does everything mean in the merged Fedora case")

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Everything installs

Posted Jun 23, 2007 23:41 UTC (Sat) by ronaldcole (guest, #1462) [Link]

You need "everything" installs when you're building and distributing the RPMs of a package that "configure"s itself differently depending on what packages are installed (when the alternative is to be forever satisfying the whims of the "BuildRequires:" gods; who apparently have a rather ravenous appetite for "obscure apps").

Everything installs

Posted Jun 24, 2007 12:40 UTC (Sun) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link]

That's kind of a big hammer for a little problem.

You can either do a quick awk command to feed those buildreqs to xargs yum install, or if you do this a lot, you could install mock to automatically ensure it's done right every time.