Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Ben Collins's letter: > On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 03:50:41PM +0100, Federico Di Gregorio wrote: > > Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Wichert Akkerman's letter: > > > Previously John Hasler wrote: > > > > Undo. > > > > > > dpkg will support rollback at some point, when reiserfs supports > > > transactions. > > > > that's completely crazy. will you force anybody who wants rollback to > > use raiserfs? generic applications like dpkg should be indipendent of > > the fs used (as long as the fs provides an adeguate set of features, > > surely i don't ask for a full-working dpkf on vfat...) > > Heh. Do you have any idea how hard it is to implement rollback? Without > package support, it is almost impossible without a system layer handling > it (snapshot of preinstall state, so you can revert completely back to it).
* dpkg-repack the package (using the installed configuarion files [the only the user can modify/replace]) * copy .deb file to /var/cache/dpkg/rollback/ * install new package * dpkg --rollback remove current package (doea a downgrade) and replaces all the files from the repackaged package * dpkg --clean removes all the repackaged packages. or am i missing something? federico -- Federico Di Gregorio MIXAD LIVE Chief of Research & Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer & Italian Press Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Best friends are often failed lovers. -- Me