Re: apt-get rollback packagename !?!

2004-02-26 Thread Raphaël Berbain
David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It can happen, even to the best, even from stable--an upgrade is done that renders the system less than usable. It just occured with X. [...] I propose a rollback capability in apt-get. Assuming that this could not be done over the internet at present,

Re: apt-get rollback packagename !?!

2004-02-26 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 26 February 2004 18:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raphaël Berbain) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It can happen, even to the best, even from stable--an upgrade is done that renders the system less than usable. It just

apt-get rollback packagename !?!

2004-02-25 Thread David Baron
It can happen, even to the best, even from stable--an upgrade is done that renders the system less than usable. It just occured with X. While, if one really knew how, one could bet stuff from backport, compile it (assuming all goes well--remember other things were changed in the upgrade as

Re: apt-get rollback packagename !?!

2004-02-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-25, David Baron penned: It can happen, even to the best, even from stable--an upgrade is done that renders the system less than usable. It just occured with X. While, if one really knew how, one could bet stuff from backport, compile it (assuming all goes well--remember other

Re: apt-get rollback packagename !?!

2004-02-25 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 19:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I agree that this feature would be awesome, I believe I've seen many discussions indicating that this would be a lot more difficult to implement than it might seem. Awesome and or difficult, we see now it has become

Re: apt-get rollback packagename !?!

2004-02-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-25, David Baron penned: On Wednesday 25 February 2004 19:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I agree that this feature would be awesome, I believe I've seen many discussions indicating that this would be a lot more difficult to implement than it might seem. Awesome and or

Re: apt-get rollback packagename !?!

2004-02-25 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 10:42:40PM +0100, David Baron said On Wednesday 25 February 2004 19:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I agree that this feature would be awesome, I believe I've seen many discussions indicating that this would be a lot more difficult to implement than it might