[Spacewalk-list] Snapshot packages

[Robert Paschedag]

If you need to rollback, you need to have all channels subscribed that contain the packages with the previous version.

You can also use the system profiles. You need to create a profile of the current system prior to the upgrade. Afterwards, you can compare and, if needed, revert.

But as I said in the beginning.... you need to subscribe to the channels holding the old versions.

Robert
Am 25.06.2015 17:05 schrieb Rodrigo de Lima Silva <rodrigodlima at gmail.com>:
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> Hi guys,
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> I am searching some documentations about snapshot on Spacewalk, but I don't found nothing about my doubt.
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> I need to upgrade some packages on a critical servers. I want to create a snapshot from this system before to upgrade the packages, if it's broken a servers, I can rollback this changes.
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> But, I have a problem. On my environment test, I did a snapshot and I update de "yum" package. The system is a CentOS 6.2. The package version was yum-3.2.29-22.el6.centos.noarch. Now, after update the package, a version is yum-3.2.29-60.el6.centos.noarch.
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> When I try to do the rollback, this error happen:
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> Client execution returned "Error while executing packages action: Cannot find package :yum-3.2.29-22.el6.centos.noarch in any of enabled repositories. [[6]]" (code -1).
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> I want to know if I need to create a channel for old packages. On Red Hat documentation, I found one note:
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> While snapshot rollbacks support the ability to revert certain changes to the system, this is not applicable to every scenario. For example, you can roll back a set of RPM packages, but rolling back across multiple update levels is not supported. 
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> Maybe, I wnant to do something that is not possible.
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> Thanks for help.
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> Rodrigo Lima  - rodrigodlima[at]gmail[dot]com