Program Suggestion (also Re: checkinstall (mentioned inmeeting))
Frank Wiles
frank at wiles.org
Tue Nov 8 15:25:29 CST 2005
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 15:18:40 -0600
"Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO" <brian.kelsay at kcc.usda.gov> wrote:
> RedHat has some sort of rollback to RPM. I read about it in Linux
> Journal. You have to execute extra command parameters at app.
> install-time. There is a database that is kept of the changes and
> locations of files.
You're talking about the --repackage option. This essentially
builds an RPM out of the files you have on disk ( including configs,
etc ) that are supposed to be in that RPM and puts them in
/var/spool/repackages/.
If you use up2date, yum, etc I believe you can set it up to always
save a rollback on all installs/updates, however I found that it
double ( if not tripled ) the time it took to do updates.
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