Re: rolling back updates

[Andrew Ross <grof rogers com>]

Thanks for your reply Frank.

Let me clarify.

In your scenario, does the downgrade to 1.0 involve a re-apply of 1.0, or
a removal of 1.1 (revealing 1.0 intact)?

What I am interested in is a way to do patch/package rollbacks.


On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Frank Cusack wrote:

> Your question is not clear.  RPM doesn't apply patches.
> 
> You can install a 1.0 RPM, upgrade to a 1.1 RPM, then downgrade back
> to the 1.0 RPM, in general.  There may be dependency requirements that
> prevent you from downgrading, but in general this works.
> 
> /fc