On 1/13/07, Jerry Williams <jwilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Thanks Jeff, I really didn't post here to try and fix my problem, more to look at the whole picture. If you break your server and lots of people depend on it then that is a bad thing. And it is hard to have an identical machine sitting there to test on. I would like to see Fedora 7 more robust so that it would be easy to recover from a problem like this. Does rpm need to be fixed to keep a previous version or something else? What if rpm had a cache that it would keep the previous version and the current version? And maybe an option to purge the previous version. That is looking like I should be keeping a copy of all the rpms on my system so I don't have to try and get them on the system after a problem.
While I sympathize with your situation. I think your suggestion brings RPM way beyond what it should be doing, into the realm of Yum.You can have yum cache all files that are downloaded. And unless you do an http `rpm -i`, you should have a copy of an RPM, it would then be up to you to store it safely. Alone those lines, I was quite dissapointed to find out that Fedora had changed the yum default of caching downloaded RPMs to not caching them. Maybe it was mentioned in the release notes, but I found that out at a rather bad time - I had come to depend on a backup copy of the RPM being in the yum cache folder. But back to your point...yum _should_ be able to: 1) "rollback" a package (and maybe it's dependancies) to a previos version...downloading the packages if necessart 2) roll back the entire RPM system to a particular point in time..sort of like System Restore , or whatever it is called in Windows...a restore point I think they call it. A sample scenario is that a kernel patch/fix/update causes your system to bork...and it is not a widespread issue, so you don't except a fix soon. At least you could roll back the kernel package - but that is a very bad example since the last 2 kernels are kept. -- Fedora Core 6 and proud -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
