On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 4:26 PM Leon Fauster via CentOS-devel < centos-devel at centos.org> wrote: > On 06.08.21 15:29, Troy Dawson wrote: > > > > It is also very useful when we find out "why" people are doing things. > > Using this example, it's helpful to know "why" they are trying to > > reinstall freetype. > > Is this a security audit that requires every package to be reinstalled? > > Is this part of someone's QA that requires every package to be > reinstalled? > > Did you accidentally remove a file and need to re-install the package. > > Knowing the "why" helps us (Red Hat) understand the priority and scope. > > > Its a QA process that identified that a package would be downgraded, > if distro-sync would be done. Downgrades are classified as security > issue, therefore a manually interaction was done. The reinstall activity > was done by an operator to verify that the current installed pkg is > really not in the repos anymore ... > > So IMHO, for the sake of "high level" processes out there. Leaving the > already published rpm in the repos would hurt less then removing it. > > $ rpm -q --qf '%{SIZE}\n' freetype > 811871 > > -- > Leon > Thank you for the feedback. This will help us push back if/when we are requested to do something similar in the future. Troy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20210807/e274628a/attachment-0005.html>