On Sep 23, 2012, at 5:50 PM, Tomasz Pala <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 17:30:04 -0400, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: > >>> Thus noone expect this to work or even exists. >> >> What am I, chopped liver? >> >> I said exactly that I do not expect --rollback to Just Work, with additional >> history/context information regarding the history/rationale on a Mancoosi >> WP3 mailing list >> when the decision was made to _NOT_ continue with the previous >> implementation of --rollback. > > Blablabla - for the last time: I don't care. I don't know anyone who > cares. If you had no feedback for years, apparently no rpm user cares. > We are not talking about SUCH feature. If THIS doesn't work > /dev/null. >
Which is what I said *repeatedly* in an attempt to adjust expectations of --rollback. Go read the Blablabla ... >>>> I do not understand your distinction. >>>> >>>> How is --rollback to be performed if operations are >>>> only partially reversed? >>> >>> cd /var/spool/repackage; ls | perl -ne 'use Time::Local; my >>> ($mday,$mon,$year,$hour,$min,$sec) = split(/[\s.:]+/, "23.04.2012 >>> 12:00:00"); my $time = timelocal($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon-1,$year); print >>> if $_>=$time' | sort -r | while read dir; do rpm -Uvh --oldpackage --force >>> $dir/*; done >> >> Hint: Your script is utterly useless when the clock isn't/wasn't correct. > > 1. do you still not understand this distinction? troll++ > 2. do you know how package manager could restore packages now? troll++ > 3. "when the disk isn't/wasn't working properly, every solution is utterly > useless" You are clueless: saving state remotely permits an entire machine to be recreated when hard drives fail. Backups and off-site storage are well known remedies for hard drive failures. > 4. I've written this for this conversation as simplest demonstration of what > is missing. > Yes: you are a simpleton. 73 de Jeff > -- > Tomasz Pala <[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > pld-devel-en mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en _______________________________________________ pld-devel-en mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en
