[Rpm-maint] Removing repackage and (auto)rollback?

[James Olin Oden]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:52 AM, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
>  On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 16:40 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>
>  > Indeed. The thing here is that if you limit the rollback scope to just
>  > config files, things suddenly become far more manageable. It wouldn't cost
>  > an arm and a leg to (optionally) store the entire config file history
>  > separately, say, in a real SCM or something resembling one.
>  >
>  > Imagine being able to diff the config files between this and the previous
>  > (or a year ago) version, or what's currently on the system vs what the
>  > package contained when originally installed. Etc.
>  >
>  > I'd guess that quite a few sysadmins would just love that...
>
>  This might be off-subject for this list but maybe a plugin for yum that
>  did:
>
>  pre trans:
>   for pkg in transaction:
>      if the pkg is an update,
>         grab up the current config files and check them into an scm
>      do the transaction
>  post trans:
>   for pkg in transaction:
>     check the new versions (if any) into the scm
>
>  you could even use yum's new packageobject.verify() code to make it all
>  spiffy and easy to look for changes.
I think that would be very nice.  The hard part is dealing with
multiple SCM's, but thats not so hard really...just a little driver
layer.

...james