Re: is there a way to revert to a previous, known working set of debian packages?

2010-01-08 Thread C M Reinehr
On Fri 08 January 2010 05:23:44 am Jurriaan wrote: > I'm comfortable using Debian/Unstable. I accept that things can go > wrong, and I'm willing to file bugreports. > > However, I do wonder if there is any way to make snapshot of the current > versions of all packages, then update, and then, if nec

Re: is there a way to revert to a previous, known working set of debian packages?

2010-01-08 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 02:21:11PM +0100, Michael Dominok wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 11:23:44 + > Jurriaan wrote: > > However, I do wonder if there is any way to make snapshot of the > > current versions of all packages, then update, and then, if > > necessary, revert back to the previous sna

Re: is there a way to revert to a previous, known working set of debian packages?

2010-01-08 Thread Michael Dominok
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 11:23:44 + Jurriaan wrote: > However, I do wonder if there is any way to make snapshot of the > current versions of all packages, then update, and then, if > necessary, revert back to the previous snapshot. I do my upgrades using a little script. #!/bin/sh # /root/bin/get

is there a way to revert to a previous, known working set of debian packages?

2010-01-08 Thread Jurriaan
I'm comfortable using Debian/Unstable. I accept that things can go wrong, and I'm willing to file bugreports. However, I do wonder if there is any way to make snapshot of the current versions of all packages, then update, and then, if necessary, revert back to the previous snapshot. I seem to hav