RE: [PEAR-DEV] new pear revert command
| From: | Lukas Smith | Date: | Wed, 27 Aug 2003 18:26:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PEAR-DEV] new pear revert command | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.pear.dev |
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> From: Stefan Neufeind [mailto:stefan@neufeind.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 3:53 PM
> On 26 Aug 2003 at 22:00, Greg Beaver wrote:
>
> > I have a working pear revert command here at home, I won't post the
> > patch because I'd like to work out some code dealing with
subpackages
> > first, but I wanted to get some feedback on the choices I made for
the
> > command format.
> >
> > The way it works now is this:
> >
> > pear revert [--subpackages] packagename version number|packagefile
> >
> > packagefile can be any local .tgz, package.xml, or a URL
> > http://www.example.com/Package-1.3.tgz.
> >
> > This command is extremely useful for testing a release, and quickly
> > reverting to a known working release.
> >
> > For instance, if PEAR is being tested, you can download the .tgz for
> > the current version of PEAR, and then if something breaks for you,
> > you can simply:
> >
> > pear revert PEAR PEAR-1.2.1.tgz
> >
> > and voila - your installation is fixed.
I dont get it .. what can't you do with the existing commands?
Regards,
Lukas