When will Fedora work again?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue Mar 10 17:13:56 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 11:08 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 11:01 +0000, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote:
> > Antonio M wrote:
> > 
> > > I confirm that rawhide is working here with intel integrated card on
> > > my laptop after this morning updates (mobile GM965/GM960 integrated
> > > graphic controller)...be careful during updates and have at hand a
> > > bunch of working packages so you may revert in case of  failures.
> > 
> > Then would it be time for some sort of "rollback" utility,
> > so if "yum update something" breaks, maybe  : yum --rollback something
> 
> That's been discussed before. It's fantastically hard to do, short of
> snapshotting the whole system.

Actually, some support for this was written into RPM in 4.6, and then
taken out in 4.7. :) Mostly because no-one really used it, contributory
factor being that it did have bugs related to the above.

Mandriva implemented some support into urpmi, with the same result - it
did, more or less, actually work, but had bugs and very few people
actually used it (may have been a communication issue).
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