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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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Neil Bothwick |
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Top Oxymorons Number 8: Tight slacks |
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