Old Ubuntu .deb?

[dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:33:35AM -0400, Tom Metro wrote:
> Kent Borg wrote:
> > P.S. BTW, old debs can be found at repos.um.ac.ir...but I am wondering 
> > whether before upgrades the paranoid should do a hardlink copy of 
> > /var/cache/apt/archives to a backup directory.
> 
> I've wondered why there isn't (or I am not aware of) an apt
> configuration setting to have it more intelligently manage the package
> cache, such that it always keeps at least one prior rev on hand, so you
> can easily roll back after a troubled upgrade.

Probably because apt doesn't actually support roll-backs at all.

Solving this is hard, which is why it hasn't been done yet.

-dsr-


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