* Miguel Angel Alvarez schrieb am 20.01.08 um 22:57 Uhr: > Hi all, Hi Miguel,
> Sometimes a package is broken, at least in some circumstances, for whatever > reason that may or may not be under control of the packman team. > For example, the libxine1-1.1.9 update broke kaffeine. OK.. > Unfortunately, the repository only offers the last package, and once it is > installed and you realize that there is a problem, it is too late to go back > to your known working configuration. You can save the packages on your harddisk. Package managers that I know do this automatically. > That's why I'm suggesting you to keep at least one release (not minor > rebuild) > before the actual one. Please, it is not so much disk space on the servers or > management overhead, and it would provide great benefit to us all. Not so much diskspace?? We would need twice as much space. > Otherwise, the only sane option would be to manually download the packages to > keep a local copy just in case. .. or let the package manager do it.. > And that only works for my local system; if > I'm evangelizing or helping a friend to upgrade (many times remotely) I have > to manually upload big packages through my sluggish upstream, which may take > hours. Not to mention the frustration that a broken system can cause to a > newbie. I think atm this is no option, sorry. Next question would be what to keep: last revision? Last upstream version? If you encounter a problem you may be lucky to find a mirror that still has the old package... -Marc -- **************************************************** * (morganj): 0 is false and 1 is true, correct? * * (alec_eso): 1, morganj * * (morganj): bastard. * _______________________________________________ Packman mailing list [email protected] http://212.112.227.138/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/packman
