Proposal: Rolling Release

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Nov 11 18:51:38 UTC 2008



On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Callum Lerwick wrote:

>
> Filesystem rollback may work for full-distribution upgrade rollback, but
> won't work so well for per-package rollback. A user should be able to
> cherry pick updates to try from "updates-testing", and easily roll back
> individual packages, or their entire system to "updates" or even the
> "fedora" repo should something go wrong.
>
> Debian can do this. The only reason we can not is because we refuse to.


No, debian can't do this. They have the exact same maintainer-scripts 
problem that we have. They just allow users to screw themselves with 
broken maintainer-scripts.

-sv




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