Hi to all,
I have a question relating to what is the best way to get a functioning system back to a known state such as a release point or milestone.
I’ve had a few problems with automatic updates recently that prevented KDE from launching. On the last occasion I couldn’t recover the system and found myself doing an unconditional update from the console to get things functioning, I had so many consecutive errors it was the only way to quickly recover. Because of the spread of packages I had previously installed from various repos, some release and some development, OSS, Non-OSS, Packman, etc., etc… The unconditional update left my system with a mix of old and new, functional and operational but not very attractive or consistent is the best way to describe it.
If I wanted to get back to a full install of a recent KDE4 release, what is the easiest way to force the package updated so that not only are the older packages upgraded, but the newer packages get downgraded and any missing packages, themes, icons, etc., etc., get installed?
My current system is based on 11.3 Tumbleweed, I cannot upgrade to 11.4 because of various driver and software issues I have had.
I know someone will do it but please don’t suggest restore a backup. I have backed up but I do not include package contents by default to reduce the required overhead between my PC and my NFS.