RPM Rollback - which hooks are activated

[Valery Reznic]

You can use rpmrebuild (http://rpmrebuild.sf.net)  for repackaging.

Valery.




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> From: Sergio Belkin <sebelk at gmail.com>
>To: General discussion about the RPM package manager <rpm-list at lists.rpm.org> 
>Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 10:26 PM
>Subject: Re: RPM Rollback - which hooks are activated
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>2013/2/9 Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com>
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>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?
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>>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.
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>http://www.rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.6.0#Removedfeatures
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>Take a look also at http://lists.rpm.org/pipermail/rpm-maint/2008-February/001906.html
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