What about using LVM to store a pre-update snapshot of your distro? (Separate root partition from /home and other stuff, of course. Roll back root). Highly inconvenient, but it would theoretically work... On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Seth Vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Mike McGrath wrote: > >> >> I've suggested this very thing in a F-A-B thread this week. We, >> packagers, have no way to fix a mistake and very few things preventing us >> from making them: >> >> >> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2009-October/msg00168.html > > > Seriously: > > yum downgrade > > and in F12 - try out things like the history undo options. > > there are lots of potential nasty situations that can happen but I think the > general consensus was 'screw it, let the user sort it out if it breaks, > which it often does not' > > generally, if the app you updated modifies its data format and cannot revert > it then the user is SOL - but that's not _THAT_ common and when it does > happen it's certainly not yum's fault. > > -sv > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
