On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 2:59 PM Bill Bogstad <bogs...@pobox.com> wrote:
> As for your problem with updates sometimes breaking things, I'm not an > expert on Fedora; > but it seems that it is possible to lock packages to a particular > version while allowing others to > update normally You might investigate this and lock the packages > that you have found to be problematic. > Alernatively, it looks like you can do a "dnf downgrade" to a specific > older version of a package if > it is still available online. A work flow involving generating a list > of all packages/version installed > before you do a dnf update so you can downgrade things that break > might be helpful. Just after I sent the response above, I thought to myself that what might be nice in this case is something like MS Windows restore points which allow reverting to a previous state of the OS. A quick web search found at least one program (timeshift) which claims to be able to do this for several different Linux distributions. I have zero experience with it, but it sounds like a (class of) program(s) that would be useful in a lot of cases. When I get a chance, I might set it up on my personal machines. If it works well, I would be much more willing to upgrade to newer releases on my daily use machines. Does anybody out there have experience with timeshift or similar programs for Linux? Bill Bogstad _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
