Debian upgrade rollback

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 02:55:06PM -0500, Jon VanAlten wrote:
> I am usually using an rpm/yum based system, but does dpkg/apt not
> provide a way to roll back a package to an older version?  (Possibly
> requiring that the appropriate .deb files be available).

No system supports that in all cases.

You can install an older version, but if any config changes or database
or other files were converted to a new format, there is nothing that
can roll that back.

So sure 98%(random estimate) of packages can be downgraded, but the rest
will break.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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