• Re: Filesystem snapshotting in dpkg (was Re: A 2025 NewYear present: ma

    From Marco d'Itri@21:1/5 to Vincent Danjean on Fri Feb 14 14:50:01 2025
    On Feb 13, Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml@free.fr> wrote:

    In addition, I do not see how snapshotting of full FS can be correctly supported, unless all other softwares are stopped while dpkg is running.

    What if a database records some transactions while dpkg is running. What would happen at rollback ?
    This is why merged-/usr was so much important.
    (Yes, I know about conffiles. This is why my work on having /etc more
    empty by default is important.)

    --
    ciao,
    Marco

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