On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 08:50:34AM +0200, Tony Earnshaw wrote: > John Rouillard skrev, on 12-07-2007 23:47: > >My company is looking at moving to Centos 5 and we use rollbacks for > >our rpm transactions. We have used up2date --list-rollbacks (that has > >been depricated in later RHEL 4 releases), and in Centos 5, up2date is > >removed. So how do we list the availble rollbacks? > > > >Does rpm for centos 5 have a --list-rollbacks flag or something? > > > >A google search didn't turn up any answers I am afraid, however it is > >quite possible I wasn't using the right keywords. > > It didn't take me much more than 5 seconds (with Firefox 2.0.0.4) to > google for "list-rollbacks yum" and get: > > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-May/013778.html > > <ctrl><f> list-rollbacks I saw that url, but the only applicable entry I see is: * The up2date options "--undo" and "--list-rollbacks" are now deprecated. You must use "yum remove <pkg_name>" or "rpm -e <pkg_name>" to remove packages, or "rpm -Uvh --oldpackage --nosignature --nodigest <pkg_name>" to revert to an older package. which doesn't explain how to list rollback points, or show what upates were done in a transaction. It only describes how to remove individual packages (and actually describes it the hard, error prone way since --rollback could be used to perform the changes). As a matter of fact, this entry is why I put the phrase '--list-rollbacks (that has been depricated in later RHEL 4 releases)' in my original email. Why did you think that answered my question? I may be missing something, or have worded my original email incorrectly. What I am looking for is something that produces output similar to 'up2date --list-rollbacks' that shows the transactions rpm has recoreded and can rollback to: install time: Mon May 28 15:38:25 2007 tid:1180366705 [-] gcc-java-3.4.6-3: [-] java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-27jpp: [-] libgcj-3.4.6-3: [-] libgcj-devel-3.4.6-3: install time: Mon May 28 15:53:47 2007 tid:1180367627 [-] cpp-3.4.6-3: [-] cups-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.11:1 [-] cups-libs-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.11:1 [-] file-4.10-2.EL4.4: [-] freetype-2.1.9-4.el4: [-] freetype-devel-2.1.9-4.el4: [...] [+] cups-libs-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.18:1 [+] mysql-devel-4.1.20-2.RHEL4.1: [+] kernel-2.6.9-42.0.10.EL: [+] php-4.3.9-3.22.4: install time: Tue Jun 26 22:02:31 2007 tid:1182895351 [-] fontconfig-devel-2.2.3-7.centos4: [-] gtk+-devel-1.2.10-33:1 [-] imlib-1.9.13-23:1 [-] imlib-devel-1.9.13-23:1 [-] irssi-0.8.11-1: [-] libtiff-devel-3.6.1-12: [-] libungif-devel-4.1.3-1.el4.2: [-] xorg-x11-devel-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.7: install time: Tue Jun 26 22:03:21 2007 tid:1182895401 [-] glib-devel-1.2.10-15:1 install time: Fri Jun 29 01:46:13 2007 tid:1183081573 [-] nagios-2.5-2.centos: [-] nagios-devel-2.5-2.centos: [-] nagios-www-2.5-2.centos: [+] nagios-devel-2.9-1.centos: [+] nagios-www-2.9-1.centos: [+] nagios-2.9-1.centos: install time: Tue Jul 3 19:04:23 2007 tid:1183489463 [-] rdist-6.1.5-38.40.1:1 [+] rdist-6.1.5-38.40.2:1 So I can do an: rpm -Uvh --rollback 'Jun 29 01:46:13 2007' to get back to the system install just prior to the rpm install recorded at: Jun 29 01:46:13 2007. Without this info I don't even have a good way to track what packages may have been upgraded manually by another admin, automatically via yum, or manually via a user installing software etc. As you can see from the Jun 29 01:46:13 2007 update, I elided changes from it. That is 50 or so package changes. Reinstalling them manually via the 'recommended' way is a nightmare and unnecessary since it's only up2date that is removing the undo option. RPM isn't removing rollback AFAICT and is more than capable of doing the right thing provided there is something that will list the data I need to provide to the -rollback option. So the question stands does rpm have a way to display the rollback points? (Hmm, looks like listing the dates on /var/spool/repackage gives me some info, but it doesn't give me transaction id's or other info used by rpm. These dates could be changed via touch or something making them untrustworthy for determining transaction contents.) -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-643-9300 x 111 _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
