Hi Jeff, Jeff Johnson <[email protected]> writes:
> On Jul 10, 2010, at 10:01 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Well, there’s Mancoosi, a European project which, among other things, >> intends to retrofit transactional upgrades and rollback in an existing >> distro (Debian IIRC): >> >> http://www.mancoosi.org/ >> >> I’m skeptical about the feasibility of such a thing, though. [...] > But I'd like to hear the details of your --rollback skepticism no matter what. [...] > The killer design issue is scripting with --rollback. Its extremely > hard to permit general scripting side-effects whose effects can ALWAYS > be reversed by --rollback. You’ve already partly answered. :-) Are you saying that RPM-based distros already allow ‘--rollback’? Or that the RPM package manager has a ‘--rollback’ option that happens to work *if* packages are side-effect-free, etc.? Are upgrades atomic? Thanks, Ludo’. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
