2009/3/10 Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 11:08 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 11:01 +0000, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote: >> > Antonio M wrote: >> > >> > > I confirm that rawhide is working here with intel integrated card on >> > > my laptop after this morning updates (mobile GM965/GM960 integrated >> > > graphic controller)...be careful during updates and have at hand a >> > > bunch of working packages so you may revert in case of failures. >> > >> > Then would it be time for some sort of "rollback" utility, >> > so if "yum update something" breaks, maybe : yum --rollback something >> >> That's been discussed before. It's fantastically hard to do, short of >> snapshotting the whole system. > > Actually, some support for this was written into RPM in 4.6, and then > taken out in 4.7. :) Mostly because no-one really used it, contributory > factor being that it did have bugs related to the above. > > Mandriva implemented some support into urpmi, with the same result - it > did, more or less, actually work, but had bugs and very few people > actually used it (may have been a communication issue). > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org > http://www.happyassassin.net > > -- > fedora-test-list mailing list > fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list > I revert back using --oldpackage option in rpm. Of course it can help in case that you have few modifications and you have taken note of any particular package installed during upgrade in case you have to remove during downgrade...In the particular case of X server upgrade, it means about 12 packages to be ready to be downgraded.Not very difficult.... -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : antoniomontag -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
