update mechanism for new releases

[Martin Langhoff]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Sam Varshavchik<mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:
> If the %pre/%post scripts are not atomic, it's impossible. However, atomic
> multi-file transaction support from the filesystem is not necessary. That
> part is perfectly solvable.

I am curious about what strategies for multi-file-replace are possible
without multi-file fs transactions (other than the idempotency
mentioned in a different post).

Thanks everyone for the top notch info.

cheers,



m
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