Issues with yum

[James Antill]

On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 12:25 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
> 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.

 It's already usable with LVM and BtrFS, and you can exclude arbitrary
mount points.
 However creating mount points in a way that makes it only "rollback"
those things you want is ... non-trivial.