Rollback functionality for apt-rpm

[Vincent Danen]

* Gary L. Greene, Jr. <greeneg at phoenuxos.com> [2006-11-30 09:51:50 -0500]:

> > > This looks like a rather interesting feature. While I can't speak for
> > > Panu, I can definitely see adding this to PhoeNUX OS' build... (Now if
> > > only we could get scriptlet postponing, looks like I have to add it as a
> > > lua hook for now :| )
> >
> > ooh!  ooh!  You mean like postponing all %post scripts and such until
> > after the entire transaction is complete?  Are you serious?  If you
> > implement something like that *please* share!  With Annvix (and Mandriva
> > and possibly other distros) we tend to restart apache on every new
> > module that gets installed, but if you upgrade apache to a new version,
> > that's a lot of modules and a lot of useless apache restarts.
> >
> > I've wanted a post-transaction handler in urpmi for ages but they never
> > seemed to get how useful it would be, so if you have eyes to implement
> > something like this in apt, I'm very very willing to use your work... =)
> > Sorry, I'd be willing to help, but I don't know the first thing about
> > lua and have very little time to learn.
> 
> Likely I'll be making a lua hook that calls a perl script to do the lifting as 
> I KNOW perl, and am rather shaky with lua.

Smart... =)  I could live with that (since perl needs to be installed
anyways).

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