From peter.surda at realexpayments.com  Thu Jan 11 05:25:32 2007
From: peter.surda at realexpayments.com (Peter Surda)
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:25:32 +0000
Subject: Repackage AKA RPM transactions
Message-ID: <45A6109C.4070709@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hello,

I implemented repackaging within swup. What does it do? When you do all
your upgrades and erases with this option, it will allow you rollbacks
to any previous state. Such as you upgraded a package, and then realise
it's broken. Without repackaged transactions, you have to do use
--oldpackage. It gets nasty when there are dependencies. With
repackaging, you simply do a

rpm -Uvh --rollback "10 minutes ago"

and it will do the job.

So now you can tell swup to automatically use repackaging, which will
allow you to do rollbacks. There is a new config-file option "repackage"
(which can be "yes" or "no") and commandline options "--repackage" and
"--norepackage" to override it.

Attached please find a diff against 2.7.16.

-- 
Peter ?urda
Infrastructure Developer
peter.surda at realexpayments.com

Realex Payments
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