Proposal: Rolling Release

[Rahul Sundaram]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.

They can't be done then since RPM doesn't support interactive 
installations. It is designed to be completely automatic. If you have to 
ask questions in the middle of a transaction, you lose anyway.

Rahu;