Re: apt-get rollback <packagename> !?!
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 things were changed
> in the upgrade as well!), and have a fix, well, most of us will simply
> be stuck. This could presumably be done manually if one has backups
> but apt-get knows how to handle these things in a correct and complete
> manner.
>
> I propose a rollback capability in apt-get. Assuming that this could
> not be done over the internet at present, it would involve maintaining
> an archive of replaced items and the dependancies.
>
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.
--
monique
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