Rollback to previous version subversion using apt-get

[James McDonald]

Myles Green wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-27-12 at 23:39 +1100, James McDonald wrote:
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>>Myles Green wrote:
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>>>On Mon, 2004-20-12 at 18:51 +1100, James McDonald wrote:
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>>>>I recently  blindly did a apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade and 
>>>>after ward noticed that my subversion repository had broken.
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>>>>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.
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>>>>Does anyone know?
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>>>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. 
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>>>If you're really lucky, and you haven't cleared /var/cache/apt/archives 
>>>your previous version should still be there.
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>>>Of course, if you're not using Debian (or Ubuntu or some other
>>>Debian-based 
>>>distro) all bets are off.
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>>>Good luck,
>>>Myles
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>>No such luck I'm using Fedora Core 1 and there isn't any file or 
>>directory at /var/backups/*
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>>Any ideas where apt4rpm would put it's logs?
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>Sorry, I'm not that familiar with apt4rpm :-( 
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>Did you poke around in /var/cache at all?
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>Perhaps Lonnie might be able to help you with this.
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>Sorry I couldn't help,
>Myles
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I ended up looking in /var/log/rpmpkg* files and found the following

for i in rpmpkgs* ; do echo Contents of $i\: && cat $i | grep subver ; done
Contents of rpmpkgs:
subversion-1.1.1-0.1.1.fc1.rf.i386.rpm
Contents of rpmpkgs.1:
subversion-1.1.1-0.1.1.fc1.rf.i386.rpm
Contents of rpmpkgs.2:
subversion-1.1.1-0.1.1.fc1.rf.i386.rpm
Contents of rpmpkgs.3:
subversion-0.32.1-5.i386.rpm
Contents of rpmpkgs.4:
subversion-0.32.1-5.i386.rpm


It appears that some process writes a regular list of all packages on 
the system so once I found the reference to the previous version in 
/var/log/rpmpkgs.3 I simply downloaded the correct older version then 
followed the subversion upgrade procedure at 
http://subversion.tigris.org/project_faq.html#dumpload. This now has me 
back to current version working repository... But it's a bit of a lesson 
learn't regarding doing a blind apt-get dist-upgrade