On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 1:30 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: > The standard solution to that is called "package managers"
If you search the archives, you'll find that we've done quite a bit of research to find out what it'd take to get rpm to reasonable reliability (or recoverability) in the face of powerloss, which is the core promise of olpc-update. On ext2/3/4, jffs2, ubifs and similar traditional FSs - impossible. On btrfs (and similar modern FSs with straightforward snapshotting) - doable. You may find that cjb has worked on a nifty yum plugin. As btrfs matures, and if there aren't other holdups, we are likely to use it on the platforms where we can. thanks, m -- [email protected] [email protected] -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
