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Listen to your Package Manager - It Knows what it is Talking About!

Posted by Jeff91 on · 2 comments
Thoughts on Technology; By Jeff Hoogland 		Mail this story
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Many people instinctively click through any popup window that appears on their screen when they are trying to accomplish a task. A good deal of these people do not even read the message that is presented to them, they simply look for the Close/OK/Next/Yes button so they can move on with what they are trying to do on their computer.

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hkwint ·
For about a year or so, I make an ('reverse' incremental) backup whenever doing some serious update to my system. I learned from some ICT people who actually studied 'system administration' never to do something without a 'rollback' plan.

But I think, most people don't reconsider how to rollback. Sadly, neither does the package manager - most of the time.

I think having some sort of 'snapshot' before updating migh come in really handy, but I'm not sure how to accomplish except for using LVM's snapshot of course.
Steven_Rosenber ·
Can't you do this with Aptitude?

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