[pacman-dev] pacman-4.2 plans?
Allan McRae
allan at archlinux.org
Sat Apr 13 19:58:24 EDT 2013
On 14/04/13 09:52, Anatol Pomozov wrote:
>
>> > What happens if the network connection is dropped while
>> > packages are still downloading after package installation has started?
> In this case only those packages that are already downloaded will be
> installed. And because installation respects dependency order then
> partial installation will not brick the system, no?
>
Sure it can... e.g. an soname bump in ncurses. ncurses gets updated
but nothing else, bash is dead.
Allan
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