On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Seth Vidal (skvidal(a)fedoraproject.org) said:
>> Given that we don't provide an easily accessible user-friendly rollback
>> mechanism, I don't know that that's actually applicable to the general
case,
>> though.
>
> yum history undo works pretty well. Not flawless, to be sure - but it's
> not bad for the simple-ish cases.
Sure, but we don't expose that for the case of "I just installed security
updates and Thunderbird is crashing - how do I fix it?"
Of course, that's nowhere near a trivial thing to implement well.
I guess something like having the crash catcher look up the last update
transaction is going to be fraught with no-fun for the user.
would be handy debug data, though:
The following pkgs were updated most recently prior to this crash...
-sv