On Saturday 23 December 2006 15:44, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:47:04 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > > Maybe, but they do provide an extremely useful fallback, especially > > > for those of us running ~arch systems. Being able to roll back to an > > > older, working version in seconds rather than minutes or hours is a > > > definite benefit. > > > > And in addition to that they only require a working tar and bash (which > > could be run from a livecd) to roll back. > > Oh yes, I've been there when a broken glibc update stopped the computer > booting. Untarring the old glibc package from a live CD was all I needed > to get working again.
nice for you, but downgrading glibc broked my system extremly badly. 'no devices because of no udev' badly. 'You can't boot a livecd, because the kernels are too old for your sata' badly. No fun at all... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
