On 1/12/07, Jerry Williams <jwilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I was wondering about a way to recover back to a previous working system. The yum updates that I installed today broke my 3c590 network card. I can look at /var/log/yum.log and see what was installed, but I am not sure what versions I had before that. I ended up swapping the network card with a 3c905 card and it works okay. The only thing I can think to do is do a rpm -qa >rpm.txt before I run yum and then one after so I can do a diff on the files and know what the previous version was.
Have you been grepping through your archive or rpmpkgs logs? The yum log is not necessarily sufficient for all admin actions. I can't speak for you but in my own experience I can't always do everything I need to do via yum and I have to resort to using rpm directly on occasion to include things like non-distributable content. /etc/cron.daily/rpm is already present and it should be running on your servers and provides a nightly log of the installed package set. If you look at the previous day's rpmpkg log wouldn't that give you the information you need? -jef -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
