Upstart reversion testing: howto

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 16:39 +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote:
> 2010/9/15 Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>:
> > Hi, folks. So, the upstart reversion update is in updates-testing now:
> >
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/system-setup-keyboard-0.8.6-2.fc14,firstboot-1.113-2.fc14,upstart-0.6.5-8.fc14
> >
> > testing should be pretty simple. I did an update from updates-testing
> > today and got the updated packages, so if your mirror's reasonably up to
> > date, just updating an F14 system with updates-testing repo enabled
> > should get you the changes.
> 
> Update was painless here.
> 
> So how do I restore systemd-sysvinit after this test?

The proper answer is 'wait for Lennart to update it'.

> Do rpm -ihv --force --nodeps systemd-sysvinit-10-1.fc14.x86_64.rpm do
> the trick and doesn't make system unbootable?

I suspect it would, but then the next yum update would have upstart try
to replace it again. (You may actually need to remove upstart-sysvinit
with --nodeps too). I haven't tested.
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