[OM Cooker] [om-qa] kahinah enhancements

Colin Close itchka at compuserve.com
Wed Dec 21 02:55:52 EST 2016


On Sunday, 11 December 2016 17:18:43 GMT Jean-Claude Vanier wrote:
> 2016-12-08 20:21 GMT+01:00 Colin Close <itchka at compuserve.com>:
> 
> > As for the reversal of testing updates; mechanisms exist in urpmi for doing this but what does not exist any more (at least from my brief exploration) is any are tha logs of what has been installed and from what repo it originated. I'm pretty sure I recall that urpmi used to log changes to the system in a seperate log restoring this whould allow the use of some basic shell scripts to allow dodgy updates to be reversed.
> 
> Hi,
> AFAIK (I'm very far from being an expert), the logs are recorded in
> the rpm DBs here: /var/lib/rpm
> There is also a log DB here: /var/lib/rpm/log/ (I cannot read it using
> the db tools)
> 
> After an update, the replaced packages can be shown with
>   rpm -q --blink package_name
> For example:
> 
> rpm -q --blink samba-libs
> samba-libs-4.3.12-0.1.x86_64.rpm
>         <= samba-libs-4.3.6-0.1.x86_64.rpm
> 
> It should be possible to write a script using it in conjunction with
>  rpm -q --last
> or
>  urpmi.recover --list 'delay'
> 
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Thanks jc,
urpmi.revcover looks like it might do the job.
Best,
Colin





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