> On Jan 7, 2021, at 3:47 AM, Jamie Burchell <m...@jamieburchell.com> wrote: > > Didn't the CentOS Vault repo ensure that every package ever published was > still available? >
You should come to realizing that things changed. They are not what they were. With all fairness no one can say what will be true in a short future to come. Valeri >> On 7 Jan 2021, at 07:03, Gordon Messmer <gordon.mess...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 1/6/21 8:01 PM, Strahil Nikolov via CentOS wrote: >>> - No chance to "yum history undo last" as there are no older packages >> >> >> I've seen that mentioned as a change pretty frequently, but I don't think it >> is in any meaningful sense. >> >> In CentOS Stream, package versions may be rebased periodically, and the >> public repos will no longer have older packages to install when using "undo" >> or "rollback". >> >> In CentOS, package versions may be rebased at minor releases, and the public >> repos will no longer have older packages to install when using "undo" or >> "rollback". >> >> It's true that you might be able to roll back a simple patch in CentOS in >> between minor releases, but those are the updates that everyone seems to >> regard as being the safest, and least likely to cause problems, and >> therefore the least likely to need undo/rollback. The only rational >> conclusion I can come to is that it doesn't matter if you're talking about >> CentOS today or Stream in the future: If you want to be able to roll back, >> you need a private mirror that keeps the package versions that you use. If >> you don't want a mirror, then you need to build, test, and deploy complete >> images rather than making incremental changes to mutable systems. None of >> this is new, it's always been this way and people have just accepted it. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS@centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
