On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 09:40:39AM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > With some regularity, I want to try some package from unstable yet be able > to undo all changes back to some previous state. I'd like to be able to > checkpoint the system (which may require saving .deb files) and be able to > return to the checkpoint. Ideally, a checkpoint would be "open" in that it > would not be just a backup of the system (I could do that with a tape drive > and dump), but actually add .debs to the checkpoint that had been removed > or upgraded by subsequent apt-get runs. You could always save the changes you made to a stable .deb using dpkg-repack, then try out new stuff. If you don't like it, install the old one, which should jump back in exactly as it was. In practice, I would say this would gain you very little, though, since the serious problems you're likely to have caused by installing a newer package are not likely to be due to wrecking your config, or broken files in the package... > Is this available? Is there a good workaround? Is anyone interested in > implementing it if there is neither an implementation or workaround? If you're that paranoid about new packages, I'd recommend trying them in a chroot first. http://people.debian.org/~walters/chroot.html explains how. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://www.ertius.org/ GPG keys: 1024D/1E73B7CD, 4096R/3ABDE5EC | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: bullion mania Serbian Project Monarch S Key DES Crypto AG
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