On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@thelounge.net> wrote:<br>
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i don't think people *really* like to restore a snapshot of /usr
without /var/lib/rpm if they only know what that means at the end</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>On an rpm-ostree system, /var/lib/rpm is a symlink to /usr/share/rpm.</div><div><br></div><div>And that's only because I wanted to avoid depending on a small patch</div><div>to rpm to have it look in /usr/share/rpm automatically if /var/lib/rpm</div><div>doesn't exist.</div><div><br></div><div>If you follow this, you'll realize this also means it's immutable - rpm is</div><div>not involved in the upgrade process. When you download a new tree,</div><div>you also download an entire new copy of the rpmdb. And yes, it's an</div><div>efficiency hit. On the other hand, every upgrade is atomic.</div><div><br></div>