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Forcing updates works

Forcing updates works

Posted Feb 14, 2009 4:35 UTC (Sat) by i3839 (guest, #31386)
In reply to: Forcing updates works by mattdm
Parent article: Forcing updates

It seems simple en safe enough if you replace the existing software with exactly the same version, but with that bug fixed. Most possible problems seem to come from the urge to update the software at the same time as fixing a security problem, which is oh so very tempting...


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