Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (59 mails)

[Michael Andres <ma@xxxxxxx>]

On Monday 17 November 2008 14:43:44 Michael Schroeder wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:29:03PM -0000, jkupec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > --- trunk/zypper/src/Zypper.cc (original)
> > +++ trunk/zypper/src/Zypper.cc Mon Nov 17 13:29:03 2008
> > @@ -3092,6 +3092,12 @@
> >        repo.setAlias(TMP_RPM_REPO_ALIAS);
> >        repo.setName(_("Plain RPM files cache"));
> >        repo.setKeepPackages(false);
> > +      // empty packages path would cause unwanted removal of installed
> > rpms +      // in current working directory (bnc #444897)
> > +      // OTOH packages path == ZYPPER_RPM_CACHE_DIR (the same as repo
> > URI) +      // causes cp file thesamefile, which fails silently. This may
> > be worth +      // fixing in libzypp.
> > +      repo.setPackagesPath("/tmp/zypper");
>
> Is /tmp/zypper safe (security wise)?

Why such zypper special a hack, insted of fixing it? 

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