rpm 5.x in Th

[Jeffrey Johnson]

On Sep 23, 2012, at 5:50 PM, Tomasz Pala <gotar at polanet.pl> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 17:30:04 -0400, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
> 
>>> Thus noone expect this to work or even exists.
>> 
>> What am I, chopped liver?
>> 
>> I said exactly that I do not expect --rollback to Just Work, with additional
>> history/context information regarding the history/rationale on a Mancoosi WP3 mailing list
>> when the decision was made to _NOT_ continue with the previous
>> implementation of --rollback.
> 
> Blablabla - for the last time: I don't care. I don't know anyone who
> cares. If you had no feedback for years, apparently no rpm user cares.
> We are not talking about SUCH feature. If THIS doesn't work > /dev/null.
> 

Which is what I said *repeatedly* in an attempt to adjust expectations of --rollback. Go read the Blablabla ...


>>>> I do not understand your distinction.
>>>> 
>>>> How is --rollback to be performed if operations are
>>>> only partially reversed?
>>> 
>>> cd /var/spool/repackage; ls | perl -ne 'use Time::Local; my ($mday,$mon,$year,$hour,$min,$sec) = split(/[\s.:]+/, "23.04.2012 12:00:00"); my $time = timelocal($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon-1,$year); print if $_>=$time' | sort -r | while read dir; do rpm -Uvh --oldpackage --force $dir/*; done
>> 
>> Hint: Your script is utterly useless when the clock isn't/wasn't correct.
> 
> 1. do you still not understand this distinction?

troll++

> 2. do you know how package manager could restore packages now?

troll++

> 3. "when the disk isn't/wasn't working properly, every solution is utterly useless"

You are clueless: saving state remotely permits an
entire machine to be recreated when hard drives fail.

Backups and off-site storage are well known remedies
for hard drive failures.

> 4. I've written this for this conversation as simplest demonstration of what is missing.
> 

Yes: you are a simpleton.

73 de Jeff
> -- 
> Tomasz Pala <gotar at pld-linux.org>
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