Le Mardi 18 Mars 2003 07:23, James Sparenberg a écrit : > On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 17:13, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > > On Monday 17 March 2003 5:35 pm, Pascal wrote: > > > # urpmsave --dir ~/rpmsavedir myrpmname > > > (before updating glibc and crashing all the system :) ) > > > creates a tgz of all files installed by the rpm in the specify > > > directory so that u can restore them in case of emergency > > > > This would be handy if it would have options for restoring backed up > > rpms made in this fashion and handled doing smart things with the urpm > > database. > > Are you talking about a form of something like a rollback.. meaning if > you do something... it karks your system you can "rollback" to a known > good state and try again?
yes, that is exactly the point in the following lines. > > > A simple implementation isn't too hard, though: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > rpm -ql myrpmname | xargs tar cvfj ~/rpmsavedir/myrpmname.tar.bz2 > > > > > and/or better what we use on IBM AIX 'installp' package manager: > > > > > > # urpmi --apply myrpm > > > (which will save replaced files to some urpmi specific save directory > > > and apply the new myrpm version to the system) > > > > > > # urpmi --commit myrpm > > > (which will commit the apply, ie remove the saved files from the > > > apply, once the new version is sufficiently tested) > > > > > > # urpmi --reject myrpm_qualified_name_and_version > > > (which will uninstall files from the version applied specified and > > > restore files from the previous version saved from the corresponding > > > apply) > > > > I like this part--especially for upgrading when you're not *quite* sure > > if it's going to work. ;) -- Pascal __________________________________________________________________ Running 1:30, 3 users, load average: 0.05, 0.15, 0.19 (gcc version 3.2.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.2-3mdk)) Kernel Linux version 2.4.21-0.13mdkenterprise
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