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Re: downgrade from 10.4.4 to 10.4.3


William Enck wrote:
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 11:31:14AM -0500, Dan Shoop wrote:
what / Is there a procedure for doing this.
It's the correct answer. 

So, that's one of the things that bugs me about OS X. There is no way
for managing packages. If I'm running Debian or FreeBSD, I can handle
this situation _without_ restoring from a previous backup. Hell, even MS
Windows supports this sort of thing.

There are numerous reasons why restoring from a backup may not
practical. Those aside, yes, in ideal world, it would be nice to have a
system snapshot before you make any serious system change. But, how do
you quantify "serious"? So, lets move from an ideal world to a practical
one. The basic facts are, administrators sometimes forget things or make
poor decisions. There is a level of fault tolerance that makes a system
"usable".

Just my $0.02.

-Will


This is the reason you never touch a production server (serious change or not) until you have verified a change works as expected on a development server.

I experienced this with a web application having awful performance on Tiger, while with the exact same config worked perfectly on Panther. My situation would have been avoided had I tested the app on Tiger before doing an upgrade.

Also FWIW, I do not upgrade anything unless it has an impact on things the server runs. I have not upgraded any of my servers to 10.4.4 because I have not needed to. Upgrading "just because" will lead to trouble eventually.

Jeremy Bush
Image Management LLC
http://www.imagemanagement.ws

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