FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Mar 2 01:55:16 UTC 2010



On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

> Le lundi 01 mars 2010 à 14:46 -0500, Seth Vidal a écrit :
>
>>> Given that we don't provide an easily accessible user-friendly rollback
>>> mechanism, I don't know that that's actually applicable to the general case,
>>> though.
>>
>> yum history undo works pretty well. Not flawless, to be sure - but it's
>> not bad for the simple-ish cases.
>
> How many of those before the system becomes too weird for
> reproduceability to work? Remember, one of the dnssec problem causes was
> the difference between new clean installs and old continuously updated
> systems.

Same amount as any update process. If the scriptlets hose things then 
you're SOL.

nothing yum (or rpm) can do about that.

-sv


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