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Re: System snapshots



On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 06:44:14PM +0200, Teemu Ikonen wrote:
> Maybe (and probably) some packages modify their data (which is not part of
> the package) so that downgrade is not possible, but I'd guess this kind of
> packages are not that common.

Anything that is linked to libdb is your biggest problem (and these
tend to be 'significant' applications). libdb upgrades are strictly
one-way.

Also you would need to duplicate any application-specific data upgrade
logic in reverse.

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