On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, seth vidal wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 15:49 -0700, Skahan, Vince wrote: >> How would the system know what version to downgrade to ? > > User specified or, whatever is lowest? > >> Consider the >> case where you've done multiple updates of a particular package along >> the way and you want to go to some intermediate step, or where multiple >> old versions exist in the repo(s) you have enabled. > > oh, I know - the complications are without bound. Most users don't think > about this. They just want to downgrade back, magically, to > functionality.
I think it would be folly to encourage that thinking. The scriplets are the fatal flaw in my mind - they are mostly one-way transformations. I don't think the package manager is capable of supporting rollbacks - if the users need that, then file system snapshots is probably the best option available. _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list Yum-devel@lists.baseurl.org http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
