[Spacewalk-list] Rollback in Spacewalk

[Michael Mraka]

vijay singh wrote:
% Hi All,
% 
% I want to upgrade the RHEL 4 server . This is production machine. I would
% like how can I rollback the changes if something goes wrong? I am going to
% upgrade the RHEL server by running command "up2date -uf".

By upgrade you mean update lots of rpms or replace whole OS with newer
one (RHEL5, RHEL6)?

In the first case you can use snapshots to restore old rpms from spacewalk.
In the second case this is not supported way of upgrading operating
system; a lot of other things have to be done other then just updating
rpms.

% I have below version installed right now:
% "Red Hat <http://it.toolbox.com/trd/95/7/9824/> Enterprise Linux ES release
% 4 (Nahant Update 8)". I tried to run below command on staging server but i
% came to know that it is not supported in this version.
% 
% Please let me know is there any procedure to do rollback the installed rpm.
% 
% up2date --list-rollbacks
% This feature is deprecated and no longer functional


Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat