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This issue is a copy of BQ bug #4746656. When I get updates from the update center, I cannot undo them if they turn out not to work correctly. As I have had updates disable my editor and perform other lesser but still antisocial acts, this is a substantial worry for me. No reasonable person who is aware of the threat of an irreversible installation introducing a fatal flaw can use the update center feature of the product. Justification: This is an insurmountable barrier to adoption of a major feature in the product.
There is already filed issue #20323 - Allow uninstall module. This issue can be marked as duplicate of 20323 IMHO, because if you are able to uninstall new "wrong" version of module, you can install back the old one (of course you can lost your module settings..).
The ability to downgrade a module is important for every user of AU. It is not only about that it is possible, but also that it is (relatively) easy. Would be nice if a user could select a module and choose "Downgrade" from popup menu and then be presented with all possible older versions (from local disk or from network, depends). The current version would be uninstalled and the older one installed seamlessly. I know there is a problem with settings of downgraded modules, but this is a problem to be solved by settings api not AU. I'll be glad if some work could be done on this soon, because this ability is seen as major architecture flaw.
It depends on #20323: "Allow Uninstall Module"
reassigne to Hrebejk, new owner of autupdate
reassigne to Jirka - new owner of autoupdate
Unneeded to track in both issue, closed as duplicate of issue 20323. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 20323 ***
verified duplicate
This issue is not a duplicate and was not addressed when issue 20323 was marked as finished. The need for the ability to downgrade a module or undo a recent auto-update still exists. Jaroslav Tulach 2002-09-17 11:58:21 UTC The ability to downgrade a module is important for every user of AU. It is not only about that it is possible, but also that it is (relatively) easy. Would be nice if a user could select a module and choose "Downgrade" from popup menu and then be presented with all possible older versions (from local disk or from network, depends). The current version would be uninstalled and the older one installed seamlessly. I know there is a problem with settings of downgraded modules, but this is a problem to be solved by settings api not AU. I'll be glad if some work could be done on this soon, because this ability is seen as major architecture flaw.
As long as a bad update can still make the IDE unusable, a rollback function (preferably as insulated from the rest of the codebase as possible, so it can still run under b0rked conditions) is a no-brainer. In the meantime it looks like I have to get into the habit of backing-up my whole NB install and settings dirs before allowing any updates. Hope I can find them all :(