Issues with yum

[drago01]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:24:55 -0700,
>  Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Feb 27, 2012, at 9:08 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>>
>> > I don't believe yum has a way to roll back transactions reliably.
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemRollbackWithBtrfs
>
> Yeah being able to rollback file systems will help in some cases. It
> isn't a complete answer for the case where you are using the machine
> for other things at the time you are doing the updates, since you amy
> want to rollback the updates without rolling back other changes (logfiles
> newly delivered email messages and the like).

This fixable by taking the system "down" during the update (close all
apps and services) similar like what windows and os x do.