Dist-upgrade testing

[Reinhard Tartler]

Am Freitag, den 27.01.2006, 18:16 +0100 schrieb John Nilsson:
> On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 16:11 +0100, Michael Vogt wrote:
> > A proper solution would require to stop on a failed packages,
> > recaclulate the upgrade without it and if it can no longer be
> > performed, downgrade again (something we don't really support).
> 
> Or do a rollback using unionfs?

Many packages do not provide downgrades, because their maintainer
scripts do actions with side effects, which you cannot rollback with
unionfs.

If you wanted to support downgrade, you would have to implement it in
debian first, I think.

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Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de>