yum rollback?

[Paul Howarth]

Chris Strzelczyk wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I was wondering if there is a way to roll back yum packages.  I was 
> reading about up2date which
> has a repackage and rollback option which will seem to work for me 
> however, I would like to continue
> using yum.
> 
> Also,
> 
> I am fairly new to security on Linux.  What are the main pros/cons of 
> yum vs. up2date.  Are they that much different.
> 
> Thank you all in advance.

yum and up2date are both front-ends for rpm. It is rpm that implements 
the repackage and rollback facilities. As far as I know, yum doesn't 
provide a hook for doing rollbacks etc., so if you're happy with 
up2date, you may as well stick with it.

Paul.