[Cialug] mancoosi

[David Champion]

Todd Walton wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 9:55 AM, David Champion<dave at dchamp.net> wrote:
>   
>> Here's a new package management system I saw in the Mandriva newsletter
>> that they're supporting, called mancoosi. This sounds like a nice feature:
>>
>> "Develop mechanisms that provide for rollbacks of failed upgrade
>> attempts, allowing the system administrator to revert the system to the
>> state before the upgrade"
>>     
>
> Do you have failed upgrades?  I don't think I have with yum.
>   
On very rare occasions. It's more likely that an update breaks some 
other application, in that case it would be handy to rollback until you 
can address the issue.

In a perfect world, there would be testing done first to make sure the 
application wouldn't break...

-dc