hi, Am Freitag, den 20.03.2009, 09:49 +0200 schrieb Lars Wirzenius: > to, 2009-03-19 kello 16:20 +0100, Martin Soto kirjoitti: > > Seconded, you start your session once with the new version installed, > > and there's often no way back. Applications will surely update their > > configuration data as soon as they're started, and there's no guarantee > > that they'll work when the older system is reinstated. > > In my humble opinion, such applications are broken. They will already > break when, for example, $HOME is shared over NFS, and different hosts > are not completely in sync, version-wise. > > > As a possible solution, what about putting user accounts under aufs as > > well? This would have the advantage of allowing for testing how > > applications update their configuration data, which is also a good idea > > because this is a common source of bugs. > > This seems like a good idea, so I second it, because applications often > are broken. It might be good to optionally allow /home to be excluded. > how about just adding a test user in the overlay that gets removed with the aufs and have the option that application settings can be taken over from an existing user for this account ?
ciao
oli
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