On Feb 1, 2007, at 7:41 AM, James Olin Oden wrote:
> On 2/1/07, Sandor W. Sklar <ssklar stanford edu> wrote:
>>
>> I've got a number of RHEL4 systems, built from our organization's
>> Satellite Server. I wanted to experiment with the RPM "rollback"
>> feature, but googling after having problems, I found this
>> knowledgebase article:
>>
>> <http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_9273.shtm>
>>
>> ... which states that the "rollback" feature was removed from RPM,
>> and that users should use the Provisioning entitlement on RHN.
>>
>> Is it possibly true that Red Hat has removed functionality from the
>> RPM tool, just so they could push their Provisioning service? If so,
>> might there be a fairly straightforward way of "re-enabling" that
>> functionality?
>>
> I haven't looked at the source code of the regular rhel4 rpm or the
> centos4.x rpm (which are the same). But an easy test would be to
> install a package:
>
> rpm -Uvh --repackage $some_rpm
>
> and then roll it back:
>
> rpm -Uvh --rollback "10 minutes ago"
>
> If this works the truth of the matter is its only removed from
> up2date.
Thank you ... that worked just fine, and I feel dumb for not trying
that before asking the question.