On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 14:34 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 17:30 -0500, Alex GS wrote: > > Actually I'm pretty interested in testing out 3.12 as there are some > > features I really want. If I add the COPR and update can I safely roll > > back again? > > I certainly wouldn't bet on it. Linux packaging systems in general are > not built for rollbacks (you can do it, but it's awkward) True but it's solvable, at least in Debian based systems: In Ubuntu there is a "purge-ppa" command that removes all the packages that came from that PPA and installed its "official" alternatives even if they were older. > and major > GNOME version bumps may not be downgrade safe (config may be migrated to > a new format that doesn't work on the old version, or something). > > I'd highly recommend using a disposable install, or a VM, or at least > doing a full backup/snapshot of some kind before trying 3.12. > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net > http://www.happyassassin.net > -- Greetings, Alberto Ruiz Engineering Manager - Desktop Applications Team Red Hat, Inc. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
