• mintycactus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What are updates if it is Debian Sid? Updates to software will replace A and B? Or do you install everything to A and B replaces A only with next OS update?

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        1 year ago

        That is what I also read on main page. It is not clear will Firefox package require reboot to be applied.

        BUT!

        Than you read this in documentation:

        abroot allows you to install kernel modules, drivers and other essential packages without compromising the filesystem’s immutability. When a command gets executed in abroot, a transaction gets started in the transactional shell in the second root partition. If the transaction succeeds, the changes are applied using an overlay and synced with the current root on reboot. If the transaction fails, no changes are applied (due to a property known as atomicity). abroot also allows for on-demand transactions using the abroot shell command.

        So Firefox is probably not a thing to switch A and B? But what happens if some package is successfully applied, B synced with A, after reboot it did not worked and you can not boot back.

        Also both partitions will be minimum 20gb, that’s 40 allready. If you install 5gb package, it is successful, it will install 5gb package again… That’s double time! And No garantee the system will boot. Or it won’t be synced until it boots… Yet it could hang in 3 minuted after ram leak, and both A and B are synced, you will have 3 minutes to fix things after boot. Like uninstall that package. Instead of simple rollback.

        IDK I do not get it.

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        1 year ago

        Looks bad in comparison with Silverblue where I can pin many previous version. Thanks to OSTree, you can downgrade to any point in the history or even switch back to an older release.