Warren Togami <wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Chuck R. Anderson wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 10:20:10PM -0500, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
>>
>>>Ok, thank you I will do exactly this. That's all I wanted to know - I
>>>hadn't thought of using the CVS server, as I never actually use that for
>>>anything.... but it would still be nice if you could type "yum rewind
>>>packageX," and have X and all its dependencies rolled back to the
>>> previous version :)
>> up2date has a feature where is supports rollbacks. It repackages
>> the files into an rpm stored in /var/spool/repackage.
>>
>
> "repackages" part is extremely scary. I hope nobody expects that to
> be reliable and supported.
Indeed... not to mention they aren't the original RPMs, just whatever
is on disk when the rpm gets removed. Sadly, it is a lonely remnant
of an abandoned development path.
Chip
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Red Hat, Inc.
