Il giorno lun, 25/05/2009 alle 02.09 +0200, Markus Hitter ha scritto: > > Craft a system where people can switch back and forth between > different package versions. "This update broke foo?" -> Report a bug > and switch foo back to the previous version -> Damage gone, user > happy.
Using alpha (which I do very often, and this reminds me I have to download karmic) may lead to data loss. I recall a bug in the gnome control center (which was in ubuntu for a short while), where you'd loose your entire home directory in a single shot for a bug. I often synchronise data with a portable disk but I do not version it, so if I loose a directory and then synchronise without checking, I'm ******. Yes, I should start using a different method. Crafting a safe testing environment ideally would mean to use a filesystem with snapshots. I do not know how difficult would be to implement snapshots in ubuntu but it seems that if it was easy we would already have those. Vincenzo -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
