Synaptic 'rollback' function?
mattengland
ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Thu May 11 17:27:21 UTC 2006
Something seems to be awry with this email-list-based forum thread.
Toby's note below appears to be copied to this thread a dozen times or
more...and growing. I just got another copy from watching the thread
just now.
Can anyone fix this? ubuntuforums.org admins?
-Matt
Toby Kelsey Wrote:
> Adam Conrad wrote:
> > Try a "dselect update" before this first --get-selections
> invocation.
>
> OK, running
> dselect update
> dpkg --get-selections "*" > set1
> apt-get install tuxmath
> dpkg --get-selections "*" > set1
> then
> diff set1 set2
> gives:
>
> 981c981
> < libsdl-image1.2 deinstall
> ---
> > libsdl-image1.2 install
> 1596c1596
> < tuxmath deinstall
> ---
> > tuxmath install
>
> then
>
> dpkg --set-selections < set1
> apt-get dselect-upgrade
>
> removes libsdl-image1.2 and tuxmath, and
>
> dpkg --get-selections "*" > set3
> diff set1 set3
>
> shows no difference, so the rollback took the packages back to where we
> started.
> I would still prefer something which tracked package versions though,
> so you
> could get back to a "known good" state after a bad update.
>
> Toby
>
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