[Foresight-devel] Re: Pre-update script maintenance (was: pinned kerneloops)

[Michael K. Johnson]

I frankly think that this is not a good idea.  It would become a hammer
that would make every problem look like a nail.

I know that the pre script bail-and-background is ugly.  It's really
ugly.  And that makes it unlikely that we'll resort to it unless it
is really necessary.

We now have a pattern for cases where we absolutely, positively have
to deal with the problem.  Starting to run arbitrary net-fetched
scripts feels to me like a descent back into the nether regions of
RPM trigger scripts...  It's not testable, it's not associated with
particular group versions; I have trouble finding anything good to
say about it...