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Operating Systems AIX Restore previous update w/o multibos Post 302229426 by shockneck on Wednesday 27th of August 2008 02:28:47 AM

08-27-2008

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Originally Posted by itik

[...]How do I restore previous state if my current update failed w/o multibos? Is that possible?[...]

That depends on what you did. As you did not give a proper description on what that was I assume that you did sth. like a smitty update_all. In this case there is a build in parachute in installp that will allow you to return to the previous software levels. To pull the ripcord you did tell the update not to commit but to apply and keep the older packages. This way you could simply reject all packages that are applied but not commited.
Occasionally some packages are commited automatically even if you told installp to apply only. This would be the case if new filesets came with the update packages. However, as such a fileset has not been there before the update operation you could uninstall it.

Now what to do if the software was commited during update? In that case you might try to do a forced overwrite with the previous/older versions. But be warned: this is not supported officially and does not always work. You might end up with a server with inconsistent software levels. I'd not recommend it for servers that are critical for production.

Last resort: recover the server from the backup you did before updating. Depending on the possibilities you have this might be the fastest way to return to the previous oslevel anyway.

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build-rdeps

BUILD-RDEPS(1)															    BUILD-RDEPS(1)

NAME

       build-rdeps - find packages that depend on a specific package to build (reverse build depends)

SYNOPSIS

       build-rdeps package

DESCRIPTION

       build-rdeps searches for all packages that build-depend on the specified package.

OPTIONS

       -u, --update
	   Run apt-get update before searching for build-depends.

       -s, --sudo
	   Use sudo when running apt-get update. Has no effect if -u is omitted.

       --distribution
	   Select another distribution, which is searched for build-depends.

       --only-main
	   Ignore contrib and non-free

       --exclude-component
	   Ignore the given component (e.g. main, contrib, non-free).

       --origin
	   Restrict the search to only the specified origin (such as "Debian").

       -m, --print-maintainer
	   Print the value of the maintainer field for each package.

       -d, --debug
	   Run the debug mode

       --help
	   Show the usage information.

       --version
	   Show the version information.

REQUIREMENTS

       The tool requires apt Sources files to be around for the checked components.  In the default case this means that in /var/lib/apt/lists
       files need to be around for main, contrib and non-free.

       In practice this means one needs to add one deb-src line for each component, e.g.

       deb-src http://<mirror>/debian <dist> main contrib non-free

       and run apt-get update afterwards or use the update option of this tool.

LICENSE

       This code is copyright by Patrick Schoenfeld <schoenfeld@debian.org>, all rights reserved.  This program comes with ABSOLUTELEY NO
       WARRANTY.  You are free to redistribute this code under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.

AUTHOR

       Patrick Schoenfeld <schoenfeld@debian.org>

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