Program Suggestion (also Re: checkinstall (mentioned inmeeting))

[Frank Wiles]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 15:18:40 -0600
"Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO" <brian.kelsay at kcc.usda.gov> wrote:

> RedHat has some sort of rollback to RPM.  I read about it in Linux
> Journal.  You have to execute extra command parameters at app.
> install-time.  There is a database that is kept of the changes and
> locations of files.

  You're talking about the --repackage option.  This essentially
  builds an RPM out of the files you have on disk ( including configs,
  etc ) that are supposed to be in that RPM and puts them in 
  /var/spool/repackages/. 

  If you use up2date, yum, etc I believe you can set it up to always
  save a rollback on all installs/updates, however I found that it
  double ( if not tripled ) the time it took to do updates. 

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   Frank Wiles <frank at wiles.org>
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