On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 at 08:23 GMT, Rob Weir penned: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:40:02PM -0800, Joe Rhett said >> With no way to go back? Right... > > Notice that I said "general", by the way. It is often possible to > trivially downgrade packages with dpkg, but sometimes it is extremely > difficult. Say a package converts a config file from an old format to > a new one. Is it supposed to include functionality to revert that > change? What if the admin makes some change to the new config file > that *can't* be represented in the old format, and then tries to > revert it? What if I try to roll back through fifty versions to one > that was built against libc5? etc, etc, etc. > > As you can imagine, the general solution to this is HARD. REALLY > HARD. >
Besides which, what OS and/or software package on any system provides easy downgrade capability? I can't think of any. In many cases, you might get away with it, but in some, you're hosed. -- monique PLEASE don't CC me. Please. Pretty please with sugar on top. Whatever it takes, just don't CC me! I'm already subscribed!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
