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" <dotancohen at gmail.com>
> Subject: Updating mplayer and possible rolling back
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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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