Old Ubuntu .deb?

[Tom Metro]

Kent Borg wrote:
> P.S. BTW, old debs can be found at repos.um.ac.ir...but I am wondering 
> whether before upgrades the paranoid should do a hardlink copy of 
> /var/cache/apt/archives to a backup directory.

I've wondered why there isn't (or I am not aware of) an apt
configuration setting to have it more intelligently manage the package
cache, such that it always keeps at least one prior rev on hand, so you
can easily roll back after a troubled upgrade.

 -Tom

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