Re: utility to downgrade a package with its dependencies?

[Nicolas Bercher <nbercher@yahoo.fr>]

Darac Marjal a écrit :
> On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 03:43:22PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> I was in this situation myself a while ago and decided that the best
> solution was as follows:
> 	* Before upgrading, take an LVM snapshot (this, of course, assumes
> 	  you ARE on LVM).
> 	* Perform the package upgrade and then test the new version.
> 	* If happy, delete the snapshot (this is a cheap operation)
> 	* If unhappy, rollback the snapshot (which takes a bit of time, but
> 	  gets you back to where you were).
>
> Obviously, any other changes you made between the snapshot and the
> rollback would also get rolled back.

Maybe the use of a version control system on /etc (through etckeeper for
example) could help to restore the appropriate configurations for
downgraded packages, with no side effect as the LVM snap would
introduce.

Nicolas