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But without the rollback being atomic, there is potential for the rollback to fail and the system to be left in a broken state. Guix and Nix also can record ma
by davexunit 10y ago
But without the rollback being atomic, there is potential for the rollback to fail and the system to be left in a broken state. Guix and Nix also can record many generations of the system and roll back to any one of them. Pinning packages with yum is very primitive and unsafe by comparison.
- jjnoakes 10y agoYum typically upgrades packages through very minor version changes. Like a.b.c to a.b.c+1. Rolling back is not nearly dangerous as you are implying in a curated distribution.