load_policy in chroot question

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jan 14, 2005, Colin Walters <walters at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 20:13 -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On Jan 10, 2005, Colin Walters <walters at redhat.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > What is it specifically that you are doing with the chroot?  Building
>> > RPMs?
>> 
>> In my case, what I used to do was to maintain two or more installs on
>> each box, each of them up-to-date, such that, in case I messed up with
>> the daily-use install (say rawhide), I could go back to a known-good
>> install (say FC3 or even FC2).

> Xen.

Not available in neither FC3 nor FC2 kernels.  Nor earlier releases of
FC, for that matter, where the significant kernel differences would
make it even trickier.

Xen is the way forward.  Keeping earlier installs is a way to go
back.  So Xen is not an option, as appealing as it might seem.

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