Rollback to previous version subversion using apt-get

Myles Green rmg57
Mon Dec 27 08:38:04 PST 2004


On Mon, 2004-27-12 at 23:39 +1100, James McDonald wrote:
> Myles Green wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 2004-20-12 at 18:51 +1100, James McDonald wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>I recently  blindly did a apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade and 
> >>after ward noticed that my subversion repository had broken.
> >>
> >>I want to roll back to previous version but am wondering where the log 
> >>file that tells one what version of subversion apt updated from and to 
> >>is listed.
> >>
> >>Does anyone know?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >You might find it in /var/backups/dpkg.status.n where n can be 0-9 or
> >if 
> >you can remember the date you performed that update, do an ls -l on 
> >/var/backups/ and look at that day's dpkg.status log as every apt-get 
> >action is logged to that file. 
> >
> >If you're really lucky, and you haven't cleared /var/cache/apt/archives 
> >your previous version should still be there.
> >
> >Of course, if you're not using Debian (or Ubuntu or some other
> >Debian-based 
> >distro) all bets are off.
> >
> >Good luck,
> >Myles
> >
> >  
> >
> No such luck I'm using Fedora Core 1 and there isn't any file or 
> directory at /var/backups/*
> 
> Any ideas where apt4rpm would put it's logs?

Sorry, I'm not that familiar with apt4rpm :-( 

Did you poke around in /var/cache at all?

Perhaps Lonnie might be able to help you with this.

Sorry I couldn't help,
Myles

-- 
Myles Green <rmg57 at telus dot net>
UNIX *is* user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are.

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