Old kernel RPMS

[Chip Turner]

Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> writes:

> 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.

Indeed... not to mention they aren't the original RPMs, just whatever
is on disk when the rpm gets removed.  Sadly, it is a lonely remnant
of an abandoned development path.

Chip

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Chip Turner                   cturner at redhat.com
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