On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Seth Vidal<skvidal(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
they're not insolvable - they are just very very very hard.
:-)
At the end of the day, if the OS doesn't give you atomic multi-file
transactions, and your %pre/%post scripts aren't also written
perfectly atomically, I would say that it _is_ impossible.
In any case, are there reasons to believe that behaviour in rpm has
improved (in F11) in the face of a powerloss in the middle of a
transaction? If we start doing OS upgrades and removing power at
random points, what chance does rpm of recover/resume?
It is an admittedly hard question.
cheers,
m
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