On 03/05/2013 01:28 PM, Colin Walters wrote:
On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 13:17 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
If the issue was only 'newer is better' then rpm can easily get around
it. Hell, so can yum, now.
...
So - I don't see how adding another layer is really a problem - since
the 'infinite versions in every direction' won't help our users losing
their configs or worse their data.
am I missing something here?
Yes - that we don't need to solve the user data problem for all software
immediately to support rolling back a Mesa upgrade.
I thought that the current plan was to use BTRFS to snapshot the system
before updates, and revert on failure. Of course this implies losing new
data, which is I guess better than a priori unknowable corruption.
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