Synaptic 'rollback' function?

Toby Kelsey toby_kelsey at ntlworld.com
Mon May 8 12:57:53 UTC 2006


Christoph Bier wrote:

>>Or in other words, would it be possible to set/save the current state of
>>all installed packages,
> 
> dpkg --get-selections > my-selections.txt
> 
>>and then roll back to that savepoint?
> 
> dpkg --set-selections < my-selections.txt
> apt-get dselect-upgrade

Unfortunately that doesn't work.  The selections list doesn't contain the
version info, so you will get back the latest version for your current
sources.list repositories, not the specific version you had before.

Toby





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