On 05/12/2015 01:47 PM, jd1008 wrote: > > > On 05/12/2015 11:59 AM, Ronal B Morse wrote: >> On 05/12/2015 11:53 AM, jd1008 wrote: >>> >>> It would be a great idea if Fedora would provide >>> a way to downgrade to the immediately previous release >>> (from which the upgrade was performed), if the user >>> decides (for some reason) to return to the previous >>> release. This would completely obviate the need to >>> do a backup, and restore - especially for a 1TB or >>> more drives (I have a 4TB drive, for example). >>> >>> Cheers, >>> JD >>> >> JD, I get the idea, but not the mechanics. Are you saying the upgrader >> should create an image of the system partition (ala clonezilla or >> partimage) before starting the actual upgrade? Windows sort of does >> this when you install a new version (and the backup store is a minor >> pain to delete after a successful upgrade). >> >> RBM >> > No. > Since an existing current installation has the rpm database, > is not possible to save that in a fashion similar to what > happens when you run fedup (which requires a reboot to > actually finish up the upgrade). > > So, a downgrade would involve the same process as the upgrade, > but based on all the rpms saved (i.e. the downgrade would not start > with the release iso image rpms, but would rather download the > rpms according the list of rpms saved during fedup). > > The only issue would be the conf files - and those are easy to > backup and restore by the user prior to doing fedup. > > Cheers, > > JD The opposite of "fedup"... "UpChuck", perhaps? -- -- Steve -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
