On Fri, August 17, 2007 5:29 pm, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
> Tracy R Reed wrote:
>
>>> How would this work for a system that is under package management and
>>> you have to revert the database that goes along with the packages?
>>
>> Seems to me that you would have to revert the whole entire system at
>> once so that the binaries from the installed packages and the db go
>> together.
>
> Yes.  If someone could do something clever with merging, I haven't
> figured it out yet.
>
>

No one has ever figured out how to meaningfully merge binary files, if
that's what you mean.

"OK, now merge this jpg of Mickey with this gif of Goofy."

-- 
Lan Barnes

SCM Analyst              Linux Guy
Tcl/Tk Enthusiast        Biodiesel Brewer


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