Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> Richard Creighton wrote:
>
>
>>>
>>>
>> It's about time that the updater program and more generally Yast
>> installer provide the OPTION to backup any files it deletes to either
>> the trashcan or to a special directory for the purpose of providing the
>> ability to recover from the increasing number of bad updates, kernels
>> and other software that is currently just deleting what is often
>> perfectly good (read operating) software and replacing it with a 'fix'
>> that too often really 'fixes' things, to the point of being unable to
>> run.
>>
>> Kernel updates or other critical software like Yast modules, often well
>> intentioned updates will have unintended and sometimes fatal
>> consequences and it leaves you with no alternatives but to reinstall
>> from who knows where.
>>
> Richard,
>
> I cannot agree more.
>
> Imho your suggestion to have a backup way of installing updates, is one
> step.
> The other essential thing I see necessary is quality control BEFORE an
> update is released to the public.
>
> Otoh, let's not forget that this is free software, also free as in beer.
>
> I would be much more angry if this happened to me on a SLES based
> enterprise machine.
>
> I also remember that Ubuntu LTS (long term suppport) once got an update
> that rendered thousands of X configurations worldwide to be unuseable
> and recently, Microsoft's WGA servers failed, as well.
>
> So it is really bad and there is no real excuse, but the competition is
> not necessairily better.
>
> Kind regards
> Eberhard
>
>
I have opened
Bug #342590
to hopefully address this issue. It will probably be closed, but who
knows, maybe not.
Richard
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