torsdagen den 23 oktober 2003 19.11 skrev Levi Ramsey: > On Thu Oct 23 18:55 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: > > > I'd be happy if there were simply a "rollback" directory on the > > > > mirrors. In > > > > > other words when a package is updated, yesterday's version rolls over > > > > to the > > > > > rollback directory. Also, the reason I said "yesterday's" is often > > > > there are > > > > > 2-3 quick updates in a row, as little packaging bugs get caught by the > > > packager and quickly fixed - would hate to have two broken packages, > > > the rollback and the new one, on the mirrors. > > > > Why does this need to be on the mirrors? Wouldn't it be better if you > > could set urpmi to auto-repackage some packages (like rpm --repackage)? > > Then, you would have the last package you had working (since youhave no > > guarantees about yesterday's package anyway). > > > > For cookers, this would be quite useful ... > > Excellent idea, Buchan... you are a veritable fountain of such.
I concur. This could also be used with the idea I had with the term "update_media": 1. pack needed installed package(s) 2. put it in the urpmi cache (or where ever...) 3. rename it (pretty much like the troels perl script) 4. run rsync 5. do update
