Proposal: Rolling Release

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Mon Nov 10 19:02:00 UTC 2008


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.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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