Hi all, Occasionally, upgrading a Debian unstable (or testing) system results in breakage. Sometimes the bugs are not immediately detected, or they are not easily located to a single package, especially if the upgrade in question contained many libraries or other shared code. Thus it would be useful to know what has changed in a past upgrade, or when a certain package was last upgraded. Unfortunately, apt and dpkg do not have built-in logging (see #134694).
It would also be useful to be able to restore the system (or at least the Debian packages and their configuration) to the state it was in before the upgrade. The archive at snapshots.debian.net luckily has all the old versions of packages available. I've been playing with putting the /etc directory plus a list of currently installed packages and their versions under version control. In principle, a "rollback" to any previous system state would be possible by installing (downgrading) the needed packages and restoring the configuration information in /etc. Now, I could develop scripts to make using the information in the version control archive easier with features such as tracking the version histories of single packages etc., but I'd like to know if there has been any previous work with similar goals or is there something I've overlooked which would make restoring the system state unfeasible? All the best, Teemu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
