<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>You can use rpmrebuild (http://rpmrebuild.sf.net) for repackaging.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.5px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16.5px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Valery.<br></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">From:</span></b> Sergio Belkin <sebelk@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> General discussion about the RPM package manager <rpm-list@lists.rpm.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, February 12, 2013 10:26 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: RPM Rollback - which hooks are activated<br> </font> </div> <br>
<div id="yiv1977027595"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="yiv1977027595gmail_extra">2013/2/9 Thierry Vignaud <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:thierry.vignaud@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:thierry.vignaud@gmail.com">thierry.vignaud@gmail.com</a>></span><br><div class="yiv1977027595gmail_quote"><blockquote class="yiv1977027595gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="yiv1977027595"><div class="yiv1977027595h5">On 6 February 2013 11:52, Adi Levy <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:alevy@salesforce.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:alevy@salesforce.com">alevy@salesforce.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hello,<br>
><br>
> I'm writing upgrade/rollback mechanism for our software.<br>
> I read several articles about what's being run during upgrade, and how to<br>
> repackage the old rpm.<br>
><br>
> What happens during - -rollback of the package I have just installed?<br>
><br>
> Does the %pre %post of the old package activated?<br>
> Does %preun %postun of new current package run?<br>
> What happens if I use the auto rollback feature upon error? Is it safe to<br>
> use?<br>
<br>
</div></div>Sorry but support for repackage and rollback have been removed in rpm-4.6.0<br>
four years ago...<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all">"Support for repackage and rollback have been removed as they're seen too unreliable to be generally useful.
"<br><br>http://www.rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.6.0#Removedfeatures<br><br></div><div class="yiv1977027595gmail_extra">Take a look also at http://lists.rpm.org/pipermail/rpm-maint/2008-February/001906.html<br>
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