Proposal: Rolling Release
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Nov 10 19:18:19 UTC 2008
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.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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