[Rpm-maint] Removing repackage and (auto)rollback?

2008-02-19 Thread Panu Matilainen
Before anybody asks: I actually do think that ultimately rpm should be able to support reliably rolling back transactions. It's just that the current repackage+rollback combo fails to deliver it, as there's no way to undo script actions. So... I'm considering axing the rollback and related

Re: [Rpm-maint] Removing repackage and (auto)rollback?

2008-02-19 Thread seth vidal
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 10:45 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: Before anybody asks: I actually do think that ultimately rpm should be able to support reliably rolling back transactions. It's just that the current repackage+rollback combo fails to deliver it, as there's no way to undo script

Re: [Rpm-maint] Removing repackage and (auto)rollback?

2008-02-19 Thread James Olin Oden
On Feb 19, 2008 3:45 AM, Panu Matilainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before anybody asks: I actually do think that ultimately rpm should be able to support reliably rolling back transactions. It's just that the current repackage+rollback combo fails to deliver it, as there's no way to undo

Re: [Rpm-maint] Removing repackage and (auto)rollback?

2008-02-19 Thread Panu Matilainen
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, James Olin Oden wrote: On Feb 19, 2008 3:45 AM, Panu Matilainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before anybody asks: I actually do think that ultimately rpm should be able to support reliably rolling back transactions. It's just that the current repackage+rollback combo fails to

Re: [Rpm-maint] Removing repackage and (auto)rollback?

2008-02-19 Thread James Antill
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 11:15 -0500, seth vidal wrote: Do you like the perform an lvm-snapshot in pre-trans and allow rolling back in post-trans as reliable rollback method? The problem is that while FS LVM snapshot+rollback might be reliable from the POV of rpm, it's untenable from the POV of