GNOME 3.12 In Fedora 20 or COPR: Call for volunteers

[Alberto Ruiz]

On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 14:34 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 17:30 -0500, Alex GS wrote:
> > Actually I'm pretty interested in testing out 3.12 as there are some
> > features I really want.  If I add the COPR and update can I safely roll
> > back again?
> 
> I certainly wouldn't bet on it. Linux packaging systems in general are
> not built for rollbacks (you can do it, but it's awkward)

True but it's solvable, at least in Debian based systems:

In Ubuntu there is a "purge-ppa" command that removes all the packages
that came from that PPA and installed its "official" alternatives even
if they were older.

>  and major
> GNOME version bumps may not be downgrade safe (config may be migrated to
> a new format that doesn't work on the old version, or something).
> 
> I'd highly recommend using a disposable install, or a VM, or at least
> doing a full backup/snapshot of some kind before trying 3.12.
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> Adam Williamson
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Greetings,
Alberto Ruiz
Engineering Manager - Desktop Applications Team
Red Hat, Inc.