Re: postrm::downgrade?

2003-07-07 Thread Niall Young
in in the used archive when it suites your needs. Agreed, I meant in *addition* to pre-deployment testing - say if testing didn't pick up all bugs and you discover fatal problems post deployment. How about a postrm::downgrade hook to reverse any changes made in the new version's preinst::upgrade so

Re: postrm::downgrade?

2003-07-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:07:34PM +0800, Niall Young wrote: How about a postrm::downgrade hook to reverse any changes made in the new version's preinst::upgrade so that when the old version's preinst::upgrade is applied you're not left with a potential mix of configuration

postrm::downgrade?

2003-07-02 Thread Niall Young
I'm aware you can downgrade packages with `apt-get --force-yes install package=version-revision` but this doesn't seem to apply any postrm processing on the existing version of the package being replaced. How about a postrm::downgrade hook to reverse any changes made in the new version's

Re: postrm::downgrade?

2003-07-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Niall Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030702 16:53]: I'm using a custom package pool for deploying software, but we need to cleanly rollback if an upgrade doesn't go as expected. In easy cases it is possible to first test a package with some testing machine and only put in in the used archive when

Re: postrm::downgrade?

2003-07-02 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 03:18:36PM +0800, Niall Young wrote: I'm aware you can downgrade packages with `apt-get --force-yes install package=version-revision` but this doesn't seem to apply any postrm processing on the existing version of the package being replaced. How about a postrm

Re: postrm::downgrade?

2003-07-02 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 03:18:36PM +0800, Niall Young wrote: I'm aware you can downgrade packages with `apt-get --force-yes install package=version-revision` but this doesn't seem to apply any postrm processing on the existing version of the package being replaced. How about a postrm

Re: postrm::downgrade?

2003-07-02 Thread Will Newton
On Wednesday 02 July 2003 08:18, Niall Young wrote: How about a postrm::downgrade hook to reverse any changes made in the new version's preinst::upgrade so that when the old version's preinst::upgrade is applied you're not left with a potential mix of configuration? It would be cool

Re: postrm::downgrade?

2003-07-02 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Andreas Metzler wrote: possible anyway, new packages, might use new file-formats which can be converted from the old-version but not back again. Strictly speaking, any automatic conversion done during upgrades needs to be injective and thus (theoretically) reversible for being correct. Of