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Re: Ping? + RFC [was RE: Setup.exe vs corrupt lst.gz files.]


On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 07:24 -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
> To really do this right
> (e.g. how MSI can rollback to the starting state midway through a
> aborted install) is a tremendous amount of work that I don't think
> anyone here is prepared to take on.

FWIW this is why I started porting dpkg to cygwin, way back when - it
was with the intent of getting a transaction packaging system without
writing one from scratch.

-Rob
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