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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: Proposal: drop delta rpms (for real this time)
From:       Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro () redhat ! com>
Date:       2023-02-24 19:30:44
Message-ID: 8JNLQR.CAUNOXKJJ1FR () redhat ! com
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On Fri, Feb 24 2023 at 11:42:17 AM -0400, Robert Marcano via devel 
<devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Does DNF on RHEL for example do something different when --security is
> involved? Because the RHEL documentation talks about it as a feature 
> to
> use. Is a lack of metadata for previous updates the problem or the
> implementation?

So if you are missing a non-security update, then any security update 
built against it will break your system, exactly the same as in the 
scenarios proposed in the very first comment in this thread. A scenario 
like libsoup depending on an nghttp update could easily happen in your 
RHEL updates just the same as it could in Fedora.

Perhaps --security might work sometimes or even most of the time, but 
it cannot work safely in general.

Michael

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