Proposal: Rolling Release

[Eric Springer]

2008/11/11 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>:
>
> And so far we refuse to be cause we allow free-form scriptlets in rpms.
>
> It would be interesting to see how one would upgrade say mysql major
> version and then roll it back all via packaging.  Something that
> requires changing the on disk format of your databases and such.

Such packages could be marked and the burden transfered to the user.
The user could be warned that a downgrade will technically be an
uninstall and reinstall at a lower version.