[Mageia-dev] Proposal: Updating released versions (long post)

Wed Oct 13 23:59:59 CEST 2010

On Wednesday 13 octobre 2010 at 23:34, Frank Griffin wrote :
+> One way of doing it might be, having identified packages that require
+> this sort of support, to wrap the executables with scripts that do this
+> the next time a user runs the software before the real executable is
+> launched.
+
+Now that's getting very hackish.
+I'd rather not have many programs wrapped in scripts that would do some 
+magic on my home dir under the hood. Because with such a "solution" the 
+programs would be always wrapped, even if you never do a rollback.
+How would such script detect that it actually was a rollback and it should 
+do his magic on the config files.
+What would happen if the user did not run that program between the update 
+and the rollback?
+
+It seems the complexity is not worth the benefit, and those scripts are 
+likely to not be well tested and might make things worse if things are not 
+like they expected.
+
+-- 
+Renaud Michel
+