Re: How to back-out an apt-get upgrade

2000-02-01 Thread Michel Dänzer
Nick Willson wrote: > > PS: You might be interested in 'apt-get autoclean' Did you see this remark? > A .deb in the archive is (typically) equivalent to the current version > installed - it could be different (probably newer) if you do an "apt-get > --download-only" or perform some kind of manu

Re: How to back-out an apt-get upgrade

2000-01-31 Thread Nick Willson
> > Nick Willson wrote: > > > Can an apt-get upgrade (or similar) be backed-out? Say the upgrade appears > > to fail, is there a way to rollback to the previous state? I am running > > 2.1. > > APT stores the package files in /var/cache/apt/archives . > > The older version(s) should still be

Re: How to back-out an apt-get upgrade

2000-01-30 Thread Michel Dänzer
Nick Willson wrote: > Can an apt-get upgrade (or similar) be backed-out? Say the upgrade appears > to fail, is there a way to rollback to the previous state? I am running > 2.1. APT stores the package files in /var/cache/apt/archives . The older version(s) should still be there. Michel P