Rollback to previous version subversion using apt-get

[Tim Wunder]

On Monday 27 December 2004 8:41 am, someone claiming to be Myles Green wrote:
> 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