Bug 85146

Summary:	I want a emerge -return package option to install the last version when the new failed
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Benjamin Schulz <schulz.benjamin>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	soulse
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Benjamin Schulz 2005-03-13 15:21:06 UTC

I recently had trouble with an nvidia driver that had a specific version number. My old driver had a version number I simply forgot. It came out, that the new driver was installed cleanly by portage but had much bugs implermented by the vendor nvidia.
Since I forgot the old version-number of the driver, it was difficult to get a stable graphics driver installed.

I would it find very good if portage would provide an 

emerge --return package 

option for such cases, which unmerges the new and installs the old, last used version of the package (similarly like prelink has a return option)
So emerges would be generally safer, since the last system state could easily be recovered.
Such an option would only require a book-keeping index in a file.


Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-03-14 07:06:02 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 40127 ***