Am 05.02.2013 16:49, schrieb Jochen Schmitt: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 10:30:50AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > >> 2) Modern Windows updates are safer than RPM, speaking broadly jokingly? show me a upgrade of production machines from F9 to F17 without end in a inconsistent system on windows - you can't, i have been there windows is missing anything like transaction-checks tp prevent one "package" is overwriting files of a different one, has no package-deps over the complete system tune2fs 1.42.3 (14-May-2012) Filesystem volume name: / Last mounted on: / Filesystem UUID: 918f24a7-bc8e-4da5-8a23-8800d510442 Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype needs_recovery extent flex_bg sparse_super large_file uninit_bg dir_nlink Filesystem created: Mon Aug 18 06:48:05 2008 3.7.3-101.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jan 18 17:40:57 UTC 2013 and as you can see above this was installed with F9 in 2008 on ext3 and is now F17 with ext4 and 100% as clean as any fresh install (one of more than 20 machines from the same golden master) and yes, i even survived dist-upgrades with power-loss in the middle at home, no problem to cleanup the dupes and finish the upgrade simply not possible with windows > That is more a QA related topic. On Fedora 17 I have several times the expirience, > that an update didn't worked well due the existence of broken dependencies. which makes the update SAFER because the deps have to be fixed and a update is installed clean or not at all
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