Re: rolling-back, reverting system upgrades?

2009-12-23 Thread evenso
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 06:42:46AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:43:53AM +, Liviu Andronic wrote: Dear all How would I roll back system upgrades? This is the purpose of the testing distribution, to test packages for breakage so that bugs don't migrate

Re: rolling-back, reverting system upgrades?

2009-12-22 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 21/12/09, Tixy (debianu...@tixy.myzen.co.uk) wrote: On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 16:03 +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: snip You can also use the fabulous facility of snapshot.debian.net to get specific resources from a particular time in the past. snip It doesn't look like

Re: rolling-back, reverting system upgrades?

2009-12-22 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello On 12/21/09, Andrew Sackville-West and...@farwestbilliards.com wrote: As I understnad it, generally speaking you don't. You *can* if you use dpkg directly and still have the .deb files from the previous version of a package lying around (/var/cache/apt/archives/). I did think of

Re: rolling-back, reverting system upgrades?

2009-12-22 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 06:28:50PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: With all due respect, if you aren't prepared to deal with occaisional breakage, then you should be running testing. s/should/should not/ indeed. thanks... A signature.asc

rolling-back, reverting system upgrades?

2009-12-21 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear all How would I roll back system upgrades? I am using Debian testing and after I hit Reload package info in Synaptic, it will download the package versions that are current in the testing tree, and will completely forget the old tree (which after the update will be dubbed as now). If I

Re: rolling-back, reverting system upgrades?

2009-12-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:43:53AM +, Liviu Andronic wrote: Dear all How would I roll back system upgrades? As I understnad it, generally speaking you don't. You *can* if you use dpkg directly and still have the .deb files from the previous version of a package lying around

Re: rolling-back, reverting system upgrades?

2009-12-21 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 21/12/09, Andrew Sackville-West (and...@farwestbilliards.com) wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:43:53AM +, Liviu Andronic wrote: In other words, if you update the package info and upgrade some packages that come with breakages, you're doomed to start hunting for a fix (in my case,

Re: rolling-back, reverting system upgrades?

2009-12-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: With all due respect, if you aren't prepared to deal with occaisional breakage, then you should be running testing. s/should/should not/ ;-) - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the

Re: rolling-back, reverting system upgrades?

2009-12-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liviu Andronic wrote: How would I roll back system upgrades? I am using Debian testing and Just roll back your last working backup. If you don't have a working backup you should consider implementing a backup system, NOW. It's not mainly update

Re: rolling-back, reverting system upgrades?

2009-12-21 Thread Tixy
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 16:03 +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: snip You can also use the fabulous facility of snapshot.debian.net to get specific resources from a particular time in the past. snip It doesn't look like snapshot.debian.net has been updated for a long while. When I last got