[Yum] Fwd: yum rollback !!

[Satish Eerpini]

Hi David,
that was a good sugestion, but won't the list get too long if packages
were differentiated on that basis, is there no other way these
packages could be handled ???

On 4/2/08, David Timms <dtimms at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 06:39 +1100, David Timms wrote:
> >> yum install foo
> >> [foo renamed /etc/foo.cfg to /etc/foo.cfg.rpmold: versioned at ...]
> >> [foo created /etc/foo.cfg: versioned at /var/cache/rollback/...]
> >>
> >> I guess that is a bit simplified; it's not just config files that can
> >> get modified in scriptlets. Perhaps you could version the /etc/ folder
> >> and commit any change after each yum transaction ?
> >
> > it's not just /etc
> >
> > think about updates like:
> > mysql4 -> mysql5
> >
> > you have to roll back the db versions
> > and NOT roll back the data.
> Perhaps it would still be useful to have rollback functionality that
> knows about packages that aren't nice to rollback - and excludes them.
> If it was a yum plugin, perhaps a proposed update could warn you before
> hand that you wouldn't be able to rollback package X before the upgrade.
>
> There is also no way to be sure that an older version is still available
> in any of the yum repos that are defined.
>
> I know this flies in the face of Fedora bug resolve by upstream release
> paradigm ;-) , but sometimes stuff just has to work - now.
>
> DaveT.
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