Ubuntu-devel-discuss Digest, Vol 33, Issue 2

[Anthony G Weitekamp]

Tony Weitekamp
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>    1. Re: Two packages form Ubuntu 8.04 (amd64) (Siegfried-Angel)
>    2. Re: Downgrading packages after removing a repository
>       (C de-Avillez)
>    3. Re: Downgrading packages after removing a repository
>       (Michael Bienia)
>    4. Re: Downgrading packages after removing a repository
>       (Andrew Sayers)
>    5. Re: Downgrading packages after removing a repository
>       (C de-Avillez)
>    6. Re: Downgrading packages after removing a repository
>       (Michael Bienia)
>    7. Re: Downgrading packages after removing a repository
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This discussion looks very similar to the Hundred Paper Cuts Discussion 
from a few weeks ago.  The addition of one software package can 
virtually break your Ubuntu install.  The solution that was proposed to 
me was to have many machines, each running a specific configuration.  
This is unsatisfactory for people who are resource limited, and in 
possession of only one (1) Linux machine.

Is there a way to save package configurations in a database or flat file 
so upgraded packages/repositories can be rolled back?


Tony



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> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 14:40:04 +0200
> From: Siegfried-Angel <siggi.gevatter at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Two packages form Ubuntu 8.04 (amd64)
> To: Jean-Christophe Cazenave <cazenave at math.jussieu.fr>
> Cc: ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com
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> Hi,
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> Thanks for your interest in contributing to Ubuntu.
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> 2009/8/3 Jean-Christophe Cazenave <cazenave at math.jussieu.fr>:
>   
>> glimpse: http://webglimpse.net , a tool for indexing text files in a tree of
>> directories
>>     
>
> http://revu.ubuntuwire.com is the place for new packages.
>
>   
>> bash-4.0: my objective was to use associative arrays (the current man is
>> currently based on bash-3.2 and doesn't tell anything about that, but
>> the online documentation does:
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Arrays.html#Arrays). I
>> have compiled it with the whole bunch of currrent patchs.
>>     
>
> Please get in touch with Debian's Bash maintainer about those patches.
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