A Quick Introduction to Flatpak

Re:A Quick Introduction to Flatpak by jjnoakes on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @02:58PM (#13117767)

While not identical to Guix or Nix, it certainly is analogous to rolling things back. If I upgrade a package from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2 and it breaks, I can pin it to 1.0.1 and continue on my merry way.

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Re:A Quick Introduction to Flatpak by davexunit on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @09:25PM (#13120011)

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.

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Re:A Quick Introduction to Flatpak by jjnoakes on Friday December 09, 2016 @11:28PM (#13144015)

Yum 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.

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