Rollback Patches

[Michael Weber]

Good morning, Christian.

Ghost is your friend!  Before I do something that is potentially destructive to my systems, I clone the OS partition on a cheap drive.  That way I can always put it back EXACTLY as it was.

If you don't have a license for Ghost, grab a copy of Knoppix and use the dd command to image the drive onto another location.

That has saved my bacon more than once when an OS upgrade failed.

My $0.02.

-Michael

>>> "Christian Campbell" <ccampbell at brueggers.com> 9/8/2009 10:27 AM >>>
What is the supported method for doing patch rollbacks?  I'm attempting
to upgrade some RPMs via up2date, and need a back-out strategy if it
breaks our core application, without having to restore from backup.

 

I see a deprecated --rollback which once did transactional rollbacks.
Is there a replacement command or method?

 

Thanks,

Christian

 

 


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