Synaptic 'rollback' function?

[Christoph Bier]

Toby Kelsey schrieb am 08.05.2006 14:57:

> 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.

It does not work for the OP's first question. But it does for its
second question---assumed that he gets selections /before/ he
installs new packages with many dependencies. Or am I wrong?

>  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.

That's right. But IMO the OP doesn't want to have a special version
of a package, he just wants to get "rid of those packages it
depended upon".

Best,
  Christoph
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