RE: Updating mplayer and possible rolling back

[Roberto Malinverni]

There's an interesting article about this here
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7034
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> Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 12:31:45 +0300
> From: "Dotan Cohen" 
> Subject: Updating mplayer and possible rolling back
> To: "For users of Fedora" 
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> I recently had a nice hard two-day battle getting mplayer 
> functioning correctly by mixing and matching repos. Yum 
> desperatly wants to update my freshrpms mplayer installation 
> with new packages from livna, that had failed me in the past. 
> So I'm updating the system with "--exclude=mplayer*" to 
> preserve my installation.
>
> Is there a way that I can _try_ the new livna packages and 
> rollback if they don't work? I don't want to go through the 
> repo soup again, yet the freshrpms mplayer does not seem to 
> be capable of fullscreen playback (I may need to install a 
> quartz video output driver). How does one configure 'rollback' points?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Dotan Cohen
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Updating mplayer and possible rolling back

[Claude Jones]

On Mon April 2 2007, Roberto Malinverni wrote:
> There's an interesting article about this here
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7034

And here:
http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/
Scroll down to the section on "Wednesday Why: Repackaging and Rollbacks"

Updating mplayer and possible rolling back

[Kam Leo]

On 4/2/07, Claude Jones  wrote:
> On Mon April 2 2007, Roberto Malinverni wrote:
> > There's an interesting article about this here
> > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7034
>
> And here:
> http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/
> Scroll down to the section on "Wednesday Why: Repackaging and Rollbacks"
>
> --
> Claude Jones
> Brunswick, MD, USA

Use smart package manager. You can prioritize/rank repositories.
Downgrading is just a point and click operation using the gui.

Updating mplayer and possible rolling back

[Dotan Cohen]

On 02/04/07, Kam Leo  wrote:
> On 4/2/07, Claude Jones  wrote:
> > On Mon April 2 2007, Roberto Malinverni wrote:
> > > There's an interesting article about this here
> > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7034
> >
> > And here:
> > http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/
> > Scroll down to the section on "Wednesday Why: Repackaging and Rollbacks"
> >
> > --
> > Claude Jones
> > Brunswick, MD, USA
>
> Use smart package manager. You can prioritize/rank repositories.
> Downgrading is just a point and click operation using the gui.

Thanks, I'll be going through those articles now. When you mention the
gui, Kam, do you mean yumex?

Dotan Cohen

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Updating mplayer and possible rolling back

[Kam Leo]

On 4/2/07, Dotan Cohen  wrote:
> On 02/04/07, Kam Leo  wrote:
> > On 4/2/07, Claude Jones  wrote:
> > > On Mon April 2 2007, Roberto Malinverni wrote:
> > > > There's an interesting article about this here
> > > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7034
> > >
> > > And here:
> > > http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/
> > > Scroll down to the section on "Wednesday Why: Repackaging and Rollbacks"
> > >
> > > --
> > > Claude Jones
> > > Brunswick, MD, USA
> >
> > Use smart package manager. You can prioritize/rank repositories.
> > Downgrading is just a point and click operation using the gui.
>
> Thanks, I'll be going through those articles now. When you mention the
> gui, Kam, do you mean yumex?

No, yumex is the gui for yum.

Install the following packages from Extras: smart, smart-update,
smart-gui, and fedora-package-config-smart. If you are using KDE you
might add ksmarttray to the list. The GUI can be started from
Gnome/KDE menu or from a terminal using "smart --gui".
> Dotan Cohen