[linux-elitists] Show Us The Code

[Greg Folkert]

On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 07:42 +0100, Patrik Wallstrom wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Don Marti wrote:
> 
> > This is where I ask about RPM rollback.  Is anyone
> > on the list who administers RPM-based systems turning
> > this feature on?  Anyone used it for real?  It looks
> > great (disk space is cheap compared to admin time or
> > worse, downtime), but what's the catch?  (Other than
> > Red Hat apparently not liking to turn it on by default
> > in RHEL.)
> 
> Oh, I want this for Debian. Any plans for this feature in Debian
> perhaps? I would actually use it.

Huh? I am sorry, Debian has this already.

dpkg-repack is available.

And installing older versions is allowed by default in Debian.

http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/

and

http://snapshot.debian.net/

Pretty much give you everything you want in the way of older versions.

Or are you asking for something else?
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