Enabling YUM / RPM Rollback
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A very handy and reassuring feature available in the RPM and YUM package management system is rollback. To enable it add the following lines in two files:
/etc/yum.conf:
tsflags=repackage
This enables rollback under YUM.
/etc/rpm/macros:
%_repackage_all_erasures 1
This enables the 're-packaging' of installed RPM packages when a package is updated.
Unfortunately, the man page for rpm doesn't have any reference to the rollback option. To actually perform a rollback use the rpm command with the --rollback option and a date/time quantifier. For example:
rpm -Uhv --rollback '9:00 am', rpm -Uhv --rollback '4 hours ago', rpm -Uhv --rollback 'december 25'
/etc/yum.conf:
tsflags=repackage
This enables rollback under YUM.
/etc/rpm/macros:
%_repackage_all_erasures 1
This enables the 're-packaging' of installed RPM packages when a package is updated.
Unfortunately, the man page for rpm doesn't have any reference to the rollback option. To actually perform a rollback use the rpm command with the --rollback option and a date/time quantifier. For example:
rpm -Uhv --rollback '9:00 am', rpm -Uhv --rollback '4 hours ago', rpm -Uhv --rollback 'december 25'