I've removed the devel mailing list from the Cc. Creative Innovative <innovative_c@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi All. > > Seth Vidal in this older mail chain below, has mentioned that > RPM no longer supports rollback. > > Is this really TRUE, I would like to know the reason why its NOT supported. You might want to ask the RPM maintainers, instead of the yum ones then? Although I think you'll find that noone has ever "supported" it, because it never worked reliably enough for anyone to do so. Removing it was just removing the false advertising. > I think, RPM currently supports > --AUTOMATIC ROLLBACK OF A TRANSACTION. > ie, what I mean is, if you have multiple package installs/erases within 1 single RPM transaction, then if there is a failure, > for any package install/erase, then prior to failure, whatever other packages that were installed/erased, will be undone. Can someone please confirm this. You can "kill -9" rpm (or remove power etc.), it could not possibly do anything after this so it could not possibly undo anything after this type of failure. However even in the case of a "recoverable" transaction failure ... rpm just aborts as is. This is why yum-complete-transaction exists. Note current stable version (will become 3.2.23) has the "downgrade" command, and the current stable yum-utils has yum-debug-restore which uses it. However this is _not_ the same thing (and doesn't give the same promises) as a database rollback. -- James Antill -- james@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
