On 07/28/2007 04:41 AM, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
On 7/27/07, Mike Chambers <mike(a)miketc.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 15:40 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>
>
>> Not everybody is on rpm-maint list and we'd like to hear the wishes of
>> (Fedora) developers/packagers too. So: what have you always wanted to do
>> with rpm, but wasn't able to? Or the other way around: what you always
>> wished rpm would do for you? What always annoyed you out of your mind?
>>
> I don't know if this can be done now, or if at all, and I am not a
> developer or even really a packager, so this may be something way out in
> left field.
>
> BUT, upon saying all that, is there a way to create, make, or use some
> sort of restore point, to get rpm back in shape if a library or
> something gets out of wack?
>
I'm wonder if rpm could rpm -e back to a certain point, then rpm -i
--force all lib packages
A --repackage option exists for a very log time. Life saver, sometimes...