rpm 5.x in Th

Jeffrey Johnson n3npq at me.com
Mon Sep 24 15:34:47 CEST 2012


On Sep 24, 2012, at 4:17 AM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:

> On 24.09.2012 01:13, Łukasz Chrustek wrote:
>> Do  You  (other PLD users/devs) use repackege only with --oldpackage ?
>> Noone  is/were  using  --rollback  ? Or - You don't use repackage :P ?
>> You never regret installing new versions of some rpms:)  ?
> i never knew --rollback option existed, so haven't used it. but i knew about repackage.
> 
> so i've manually added packages to commandline until the dependencies satisfy again, and then the --nomd5 option.
> 

The --nomd5 option is now renamed to --nofdigests.

And there is a --nofsync option that will speed up installs more than --nofdigests will
(and entirely voids your ACID warranty: if logs/data aren't synced to disk sh*t WILL happen).

> last time i had upgraded python and found that moinmoin stopped working on it, so some symlinks (it was easier to symlink files and then rm ones i did not want to downgrade) and rpm -Fhv *.rpm --downgrade --nomd5
> 

Your symlink trick is clever but I don't recall any serious measurement of performance.

> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   46 sept  16 16:02 apache-mod_python-3.3.1-10.i686.rpm -> 1347802776/apache-mod_python-3.3.1-10.i686.rpm
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   38 sept  16 16:01 moinmoin-1.5.8-1.noarch.rpm -> 1347802449/moinmoin-1.5.8-1.noarch.rpm
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   33 sept  16 16:01 pydoc-2.6.5-3.i686.rpm -> 1347802776/pydoc-2.6.5-3.i686.rpm
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   34 sept  16 16:01 python-2.6.5-3.i686.rpm -> 1347802776/python-2.6.5-3.i686.rpm
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   46 sept  16 16:01 python-configobj-4.5.3-2.noarch.rpm -> 1347802776/python-configobj-4.5.3-2.noarch.rpm
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   46 sept  16 16:01 python-devel-tools-2.6.5-3.i686.rpm -> 1347802776/python-devel-tools-2.6.5-3.i686.rpm
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   44 sept  16 16:01 python-itools-0.13.2-2.noarch.rpm -> 1347802776/python-itools-0.13.2-2.noarch.rpm
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   39 sept  16 16:01 python-libs-2.6.5-3.i686.rpm -> 1347802776/python-libs-2.6.5-3.i686.rpm
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   42 sept  16 16:01 python-modules-2.6.5-3.i686.rpm -> 1347802776/python-modules-2.6.5-3.i686.rpm
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   43 sept  16 16:01 python-pylibacl-0.2.2-2.i686.rpm -> 1347802776/python-pylibacl-0.2.2-2.i686.rpm
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   42 sept  16 16:01 python-pyxattr-0.4.0-2.i686.rpm -> 1347802776/python-pyxattr-0.4.0-2.i686.rpm
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   40 sept  16 16:01 python-PyXML-0.8.4-8.i686.rpm -> 1347802776/python-PyXML-0.8.4-8.i686.rpm
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   40 sept  16 16:02 rdiff-backup-1.2.8-1.i686.rpm -> 1347802776/rdiff-backup-1.2.8-1.i686.rpm
> 
> 
> and a result:
> $ pkgbytime |grep 'Sun Sep 16 16'
> Sun Sep 16 16:02:38 2012 python-libs-2.6.5-3.i686
> Sun Sep 16 16:02:40 2012 python-modules-2.6.5-3.i686
> Sun Sep 16 16:02:41 2012 python-2.6.5-3.i686
> Sun Sep 16 16:02:42 2012 python-PyXML-0.8.4-8.i686
> Sun Sep 16 16:02:43 2012 python-devel-tools-2.6.5-3.i686
> Sun Sep 16 16:02:44 2012 pydoc-2.6.5-3.i686
> Sun Sep 16 16:02:44 2012 python-pylibacl-0.2.2-2.i686
> Sun Sep 16 16:02:44 2012 python-pyxattr-0.4.0-2.i686
> Sun Sep 16 16:02:46 2012 python-itools-0.13.2-2.noarch
> Sun Sep 16 16:02:47 2012 python-configobj-4.5.3-2.noarch
> Sun Sep 16 16:02:47 2012 rdiff-backup-1.2.8-1.i686
> Sun Sep 16 16:02:48 2012 apache-mod_python-3.3.1-10.i686
> Sun Sep 16 16:07:00 2012 moinmoin-1.5.8-1.noarch
> 

Is this result successful or not?

73 de Jeff

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