Proposal: Rolling Release

[Les Mikesell]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 12:52 -0600, Callum Lerwick wrote:
>> Debian can do this. The only reason we can not is because we refuse
>> to.
> 
> And so far we refuse to be cause we allow free-form scriptlets in rpms.
> 
> It would be interesting to see how one would upgrade say mysql major
> version and then roll it back all via packaging.  Something that
> requires changing the on disk format of your databases and such.

And the answer to that is that sometimes interactive choices need to be 
made during installation/upgrade/downgrade operations.  Or they can't be 
done with a package at all.

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   Les Mikesell
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