111079 – support for transactional merges

Bug 111079 - support for transactional merges

Summary: support for transactional merges

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 40127

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2005-10-31 19:05 UTC by Chris Rebert
Modified:	2005-10-31 19:13 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Chris Rebert 2005-10-31 19:05:56 UTC

Basically, when you're upgrading a big package w/ lots of dependencies like
gnome or kde and a merge failed, you have a do a lot of legwork to get the
program back into a useable state.
What i'm proposing is support for transactional merges. Essentially,

Comment 1 Alec Warner (RETIRED) archtester

2005-10-31 19:13:30 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 40127 ***