Old kernel RPMS

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Mon Mar 14 13:54:50 UTC 2005


Chuck R. Anderson wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 10:20:10PM -0500, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
> 
>>Ok, thank you I will do exactly this. That's all I wanted to know - I
>>hadn't thought of using the CVS server, as I never actually use that for
>>anything.... but it would still be nice if you could type "yum rewind
>>packageX," and have X and all its dependencies rolled back to the
>>previous version :)  
> 
> 
> up2date has a feature where is supports rollbacks.  It repackages the 
> files into an rpm stored in /var/spool/repackage.
> 

"repackages" part is extremely scary.  I hope nobody expects that to be 
reliable and supported.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com




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