On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Doing atomic yum transactions is going to be hard. No doubt about that. RPM/Yum atomicity without FS snapshot support is impossible to achieve. But I am sure a lot of things can be improved. > Probably your effort would > be better spent keeping the system from crashing during an update then > trying to implement atomic updates. I cannot speak for Alexandre - but in my case that is just not possible. I will soon be dealing with thousands of servers running in rural schools in many countries. Very unreliable power, spotty internet connectivity. Once yum has started an operation, I hope it can work hard at completing it, even if that's across several reboots. cheers, martin -- martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx martin@xxxxxxxxxx -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
