[Rpm-metadata] metadata list and discussion over tapas tonight

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sat Aug 9 03:07:55 UTC 2003


> > 
> While I think it could be usefull to have old packages around for the 
> purpose of rollback, this would be a different kind of rollback than
> RPM's transactional rollback.  Presently, as you probablly all know,
> when a system is using rpm's transactional rollbacks, before a package
> is erased, rpm repackages the package to be erased with bits as they
> are on the system.  This is important, as the current config files 
> are captured (and any non-config file that might have been modified)
> in this repackaged package, such that when a rollback occurs file
> is put back in place as it existed at the time of the erasure.
> 

I think what he is referring to in terms of rollbacks is really just
downgrading.

So if I updated to foo-1.1-1 from foo-1.0-1 and I want to go back to
foo-1.0-1 It'd be useful to be able to go get it from the net and
reinstall it.

-sv





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