Didn't the CentOS Vault repo ensure that every package ever published was still available?
> On 7 Jan 2021, at 07:03, Gordon Messmer <gordon.mess...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 1/6/21 8:01 PM, Strahil Nikolov via CentOS wrote: >> - No chance to "yum history undo last" as there are no older packages > > > I've seen that mentioned as a change pretty frequently, but I don't think it > is in any meaningful sense. > > In CentOS Stream, package versions may be rebased periodically, and the > public repos will no longer have older packages to install when using "undo" > or "rollback". > > In CentOS, package versions may be rebased at minor releases, and the public > repos will no longer have older packages to install when using "undo" or > "rollback". > > It's true that you might be able to roll back a simple patch in CentOS in > between minor releases, but those are the updates that everyone seems to > regard as being the safest, and least likely to cause problems, and therefore > the least likely to need undo/rollback. The only rational conclusion I can > come to is that it doesn't matter if you're talking about CentOS today or > Stream in the future: If you want to be able to roll back, you need a private > mirror that keeps the package versions that you use. If you don't want a > mirror, then you need to build, test, and deploy complete images rather than > making incremental changes to mutable systems. None of this is new, it's > always been this way and people have just accepted it. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
