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#1 2008-01-15 15:38:48

freakcode
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Pacman 3.1 - roll back packages

Does pacman 3.1 introduces some new feature or capability for rolling back a package to a previous version?

I know that I can already keep the previous packages on the cache, and then remove/install manually, but then pacman kinda leaves me alone while doing that.

Thanks!

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#2 2008-01-15 15:41:15

Cerebral
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Re: Pacman 3.1 - roll back packages

Not that I know of.

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#3 2008-01-15 15:46:56

shining
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Re: Pacman 3.1 - roll back packages

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6420

Aaron wrote:

downgrading is an edge case, it is not common behavior. If it _is_ common behavior, we need to look at WHY this is so. We do not want users using old packages, and making it easier to do so gives them that ability (especially newbies).


pacman roulette : pacman -S $(pacman -Slq | LANG=C sort -R | head -n $((RANDOM % 10)))

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#4 2008-01-15 18:10:06

phrakture
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Re: Pacman 3.1 - roll back packages

shining wrote:

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6420

Aaron wrote:

downgrading is an edge case, it is not common behavior. If it _is_ common behavior, we need to look at WHY this is so. We do not want users using old packages, and making it easier to do so gives them that ability (especially newbies).

Wow, I sound smart!

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#5 2008-01-17 15:33:34

arooaroo
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Re: Pacman 3.1 - roll back packages

Jacman makes rolling back a little easier, but as you pointed out, it's completely dependent on the packages in your cache. But Ultimately it's two pacman commands combined: pacman -R and pacman -U.

I really must get around to fixing the Jacman/pacman3.0 bug!

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