Debian upgrade rollback

Darryl Moore darryl-90a536wCiRb3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org
Tue Dec 8 19:47:57 UTC 2009


Hmm, yup, I agree. It's a bad idea. I guess a raid is about the only way
to go.

cheers,
darryl

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 12:44:01PM -0500, Darryl Moore wrote:
>> Exactly why I was specifically including:
>>
>> backup  /var/lib/apt    localhost/
>> backup  /var/lib/aptitude       localhost/
>>
>>
>> As well I should (but neglected to) have added:
>>
>> backup  /var/lib/dpkg   localhost/
>> backup  /var/backups    localhost/
>>
>> but none of the other /var/ subdirectories which are for other packages.
>>
>> Of course if install scripts for other packages change these
>> subdirectories when they are updated (I don't think they are suppose
>> too) then this whole idea wont work.
> 
> They are supposed to if say mysql has a new format, then /var/lib/mysql
> stuff needs converting so the package takes care of that.
> 
> The only thing a package should not touch is /home and /usr/local.
> Everything else is fair game.
> 
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