> Am 10.01.2022 um 18:57 schrieb Alexander Sosedkin <asosed...@redhat.com>:
> 
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 5:20 PM David Cantrell <dcantr...@redhat.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 10:01:57AM -0500, Ben Cotton wrote:
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RelocateRPMToUsr
>>> 
>>> == Summary ==
>>> Currently, the RPM databases is located in `/var`. Let's move it to
>>> `/usr`. The move is already under way in rpm-ostree-based
>>> installations, and in (open)SUSE.
>>> [snip]
>> ...
> 
> The whole proposal is kinda sad to read.
> It's 2022 and we're catering to filesystem-level rollbacks.
> Filesystem rollbacks *are* a gigantic unsubtle hammer
> that should not be used in an automated manner,
> or better yet, not used at all.
> As much as you don't do filesystem rollbacks
> to undo paragraph deletions in Libreoffice Writer,
> you shouldn't do filesystem rollbacks to fix your system.
> That's your package manager's / configuration manager's job.

Well, os-tree is doing filesystem rollback / -rollforward  by architecture. If 
you want to feed rpm into it, it may be tricky.

But this argues for just moving rpmdb for rpm-oss-tree, since os-tree has its 
own logic anyway. No need and no advantage to do it for non-rpm-os-tree systems 
as well.  
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