On Thu Oct 23 18:55 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: > > I'd be happy if there were simply a "rollback" directory on the > mirrors. In > > other words when a package is updated, yesterday's version rolls over > to the > > rollback directory. Also, the reason I said "yesterday's" is often > there are > > 2-3 quick updates in a row, as little packaging bugs get caught by the > > packager and quickly fixed - would hate to have two broken packages, the > > rollback and the new one, on the mirrors. > > Why does this need to be on the mirrors? Wouldn't it be better if you > could set urpmi to auto-repackage some packages (like rpm --repackage)? > Then, you would have the last package you had working (since youhave no > guarantees about yesterday's package anyway). > > For cookers, this would be quite useful ...
Excellent idea, Buchan... you are a veritable fountain of such. -- Levi Ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] We are... only immortal for a limited time Linux 2.4.22-8mdk 13:10:00 up 19:24, 8 users, load average: 2.03, 1.70, 1.91
