Updates-testing (was: Re: thunderbird upgrade - wtf?)

[Seth Vidal]

On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Jud Craft wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> Newer builds with patches, reverted code with epoch, newer upstream release to
>> fix the mistake upstream, etc..  To say that there is no way to fix a
>> mistake is insulting.
>
> I'd like to logic-link here with the following...
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Seth Vidal wrote:
>> It doesn't really help you when your data is modified by the update.
>
>
> So if my "LVM snapshot and revert entire Fedora installed" idea is
> dismissed as "still not perfect", why is "just revert one package"
> pushed as a legitimate alternative?
>
> They both suffer from the same problem -- new packages may cause
> changes in data that are not reversibly compatible with the old
> package, and mere package rollback is not useful.


Sorry, I didn't say your idea was dismissed. Just more complicated b/c of 
all the space the user has to allocate to it.

There's no perfect.

we're just going for 'good enough', really.

-sv