Provide Rollback Capability for RPMs

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An enterprise level package management system *must* provide an easy mechanism for reverting packages once updated.

The purpose of this article is to provide a process by which updated packages can be rolled back to previous versions easily using RPM.

Rollback Capability

To enable repackaging of erased RPMs, set the following value in /etc/rpm/macros: 

#/etc/rpm/macros
%_repackage_all_erasures 1

If using yum, make sure to set the following value to force yum to repackage RPMs it erases in /etc/yum.conf: 

#/etc/yum.conf
tsflags=repackage
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