RPM Rollback - which hooks are activated

[Sergio Belkin]

2013/2/9 Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com>

> On 6 February 2013 11:52, Adi Levy <alevy at salesforce.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm writing upgrade/rollback mechanism for our software.
> > I read several articles about what's being run during upgrade, and how to
> > repackage the old rpm.
> >
> > What happens during - -rollback of the package I have just installed?
> >
> > Does the %pre %post of the old package activated?
> > Does %preun %postun of new current package run?
> > What happens if I use the auto rollback feature upon error? Is it safe to
> > use?
>
> Sorry but support for repackage and rollback have been removed in rpm-4.6.0
> four years ago...
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"Support for repackage and rollback have been removed as they're seen too
unreliable to be generally useful. "

http://www.rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.6.0#Removedfeatures

Take a look also at
http://lists.rpm.org/pipermail/rpm-maint/2008-February/001906.html

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