In https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OfflineSystemUpdates we've implemented doing the package updates at first-boot time. This makes a lot of the hard-to-fix problems a lot easier. The question then becomes, how do we make the OS Update process even smarter? A simple check would be to see if X started after doing an upgrade, and if it failed, to rollback to the disk snapshot or / (and /boot?) that we previously knew worked. Do do this we can currently use anything-on-lvm, or btrfs and quite a bit of shell-foo. I'm quite keen on no adding lots of tricky code to PackageKit to deal with all this complexity, so what about using snapper? See http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Snapper for more details. It's an OpenSuse project, and other than a small patch I've sent upstream to get things compiling on Fedora it looks pretty small, self-contained and sane. Does anybody have any better ideas than snapper? I really don't want to roll my own on this one unless there's a good reason. Richard. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
