On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 14:42 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
The problem is that you need transactions not for the RPM database
but for the *system*;
I understand that, it's not a trivial feature.
To even start at being able to do that, I think you have to have
separate filesystem for the system image that is read-only except
for RPM operations.
Working with LVM here provides part of the answer.
We'll probably need some more support from LVM if
we are to achieve system-level ACIDity,
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Dimi Paun <dimi(a)lattica.com>
Lattica, Inc.