Re: apt-get rollback <package-name> !?!
On Thursday 26 February 2004 05:12,
debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 10:42:40PM +0100, David Baron said
>
> > On Wednesday 25 February 2004 19:01,
> >
> > debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org 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 necessary.
>
> Um, it's not generally possible to downgrade packages at all, much less
> automagically. If something breaks, file a bug, then install the
> previous version from /var/cache/apt/archives/ with dpkg.
Oh -- then it is there. Since apt-get is really a front end for things like
this, then a "rollback" command would simply do this. One also needs the
dependencies since simply dpkg -i some item here is not enough.
For the problem at hand, the X-stuff versions there are the same as the
installed versions and XFree86 items (two) are not there at all.
The question is when this archive is built/rebuilt vis-a-vis any upgrade or
dist-upgrade. (I am new to this.)
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