FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, James Antill wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 12:06 -0800, Josh Stone wrote:
>
>> But for rolling back an update, yum requires that the old package is
>> still available.  We only keep the very latest version in the updates,
>> so unless your previous version was from the initial release, you're out
>> of luck.  My last yum-update hit 19 packages, and only 7 can be
>> downgraded by yum-history-undo.
>
> It's still not really usable by normal users, but people on this list
> can install "yum-plugin-local" ... which will make sure you can do
> downgrades like this.

in exchange for an arseload of diskspace.

just in the interest of complete disclosure. :)


-sv