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