Issues with yum

[Chris Murphy]

On Feb 27, 2012, at 12:18 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:24:55 -0700,
>  Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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).

It's a very broad rollback implementation. I think an eventual goal for the yum plugin, once btrfs is stable, is to make it more flexible. Maybe where /home is exempt from rollback.

Chris Murphy