> speacking with a good friend of mine, Italo Lisi, who knows almost all > Unix flavours, we thougt that would be better if an upgrade package is > unpacked in a reserved directory, and then the system manager can test, > and committ the upgrade if satisfied, otherway come back to the > initial status. an other way would be reserv a backup space, so that > id i'm unsatisfied of the new software i can downgrade. naturally running > the package manager i should be able to choose if i want > an immediat commit or have a backup.
This wouldn't work with a binary package which had hardcoded paths, eg to load a conf file from /etc. However, could you work around this by invoking it with a wrapper which did a chroot to, for example, /var/test ? James +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | James Dingwall SLS Information Systems Ltd | + [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3 York Court + | http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~jd5477/ Upper York Street | + Bristol + | Pager: +44 7654 320 827 BS2 8QF | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
