On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 10:58 +0100, Sergio Pascual wrote: > 2014/1/24 Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Certainly, downgrading installations which already upgraded to > faulty packages would not work. > > Ralf > > > > The situation (a broken system that cannot be upgraded) could be > mitigated a little bit by using yum + system snapshots. You can > rollback to a previous sane system. > > There is a plugin yum-plugin-fs-snapshot, but it requires better > documentation and system integration. > > > Currently (I don't know how current is F16 documentation) it requires > running lvm by hand > > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/System_Administrators_Guide/sec-Plugin_Descriptions.html AIUI there is/was a long-term plan to integrate this as core functionality using btrfs snapshots - in fact that was one of the major attractions of the idea of switching to btrfs-by-default in the first place. I believe those involved didn't think the LVM-based implementation was clean/robust enough to use by default, but a btrfs-based implementation would be. Do correct me if I'm wrong. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
