-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It would appear that on Sep 9, Robert Locke did say: > I agree with Mike that old updates should be archived somewhere (a > current problem with the new xosd comes to mind), but having said that, > I think a compromise is to lose the old test updates but keep any update > that has been "released". > Hmmmn I didn't even realize that old updates were available... I've only been using the "stable" released cores anyway. And updating via yum from fedora, Dag, and Freshrpm repositories. For the most part I've been happy. But every one and a while I strongly wish yum had an option: "yum unupdate package" to painlessly back up to the previous version with of course, the same kind of dependency solving that would automatically "unupdate" what ever other packages that the previous version of the selected package may actually require older versions of... As it is, even if I knew where to find the previous versions of packages, I would be very nervous of manually backing them out with rpm because I wouldn't have a clue how to solve any dependency problems. I'm quite sure however that if I acquired such skill, I would certainly want to be able to find the previous versions of at least the last three months worth of updates... Especially if I were playing with less than stable versions... I'm curious however, just where is this 27Gig Fedora updates tree? And is there a good novice level tutorial, or how-to on how to safely back out packages without trashing dependencies??? Please tell me you don't actually have to do something like a current "data" backup. Then replace the whole filesystem from the last full backup (assuming you made one) and then create your own custom repository containing only versions prior to the suspect date, then run yum update from the custom repository. And finally restore the current "data" backup. Surely it's less work than that, right???? - -- | ? ? | | -=- -=- I'm NOT clueless... | <?> <?> But I just don't know. | ^ Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | --- J(tWdy)P | <jtwdyp@xxxxxxxx> | ? ? ############################################################## # You can find my public gpg key at http://pgpkeys.mit.edu/ # ############################################################## -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBQPmwRZ/61mwhY94RAviaAJ0cZpuEd23pZXWvYutaJmbXoza2WgCeKOsX MdEzRqopbFcbLc9FjJtPu/I= =an1C -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
