URPMI.RECOVER(1) Mandriva Package Management URPMI.RECOVER(1)NAMEurpmi.recover - manages repackaging of old RPMs and rollbacks
SYNOPSISurpmi.recover--checkpoint [--noclean]
urpmi.recover--list '1 week ago'
urpmi.recover--rollback '1 hour ago'
urpmi.recover--disable [--noclean]
DESCRIPTIONurpmi.recover is a tool to help management of RPM rollbacks. It has
three main functions:
"urpmi.recover --checkpoint" is used to define a point in your system
that you consider stable, and to start storing info that will enable
you to rollback installations and upgrades to this state.
"urpmi.recover --list" is used to list chronologically all
installations and upgrades on your system. (It has two variants,
"--list-all" and "--list-safe".)
"urpmi.recover --rollback" is used to roll back installations and
upgrades to a previous point in the past (at most until your
checkpoint.)
OPTIONS--checkpoint
Define the repackaging checkpoint. From now on, using rpm and/or
urpmi/urpme to install, upgrade or remove packages, the older
packages will be stored in /var/spool/repackage, or whatever
directory you set the %_repackage_dir rpm macro to. This way one
can use them for rollbacks.
Technically, using this option writes a file
/etc/rpm/macros.d/urpmi.recover.macros that overrides the rpm
macros used to set up the repackaging functionalities of rpm. You
can change %_repackage_dir there if you want to. Note that you'll
probably need plenty of space to store repackaged rpms for a long
timeframe.
You can also choose to turn off repackaging by setting
%_repackage_all_erasures to 0 in this file. (Of course if you do so
rollbacks won't be possible anymore.)
--noclean
"--checkpoint" defines a new checkpoint and removes everything in
the repackage directory. To prevent this cleaning, use the
"--noclean" option.
--list <date>
Lists all installations and upgrades from now since the provided
date, grouped by installation transactions. The date parser is
quite elaborated, so you can give a date in ISO format or close to
it ("YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss") or a duration (e.g. "1 day ago").
--list-all
Lists all installations and upgrades known to the RPM database.
--list-safe
Lists all installations and upgrades up to the date of the
checkpoint.
--rollback <date>
--rollback <number of transactions>
Roll back the system to the given date (see "--list" for accepted
date formats), or rolls back the given number of transactions.
--urpmi-root directory
Use the file system tree rooted for urpmi database and rpm install.
Contrary to --root, the urpmi configuration comes from the rooted
tree.
--disable
Turn off repackaging. Unless "--noclean" was also specified, this
cleans up the repackage directory as well. To turn it on again, use
"--checkpoint".
BUGS
When enabled, you can't install and repackage delta rpms (rpms
generated with the "makedeltarpm" tool.) Also, if you install a delta
rpm, you won't be able to rollback past this point. A sound advice
would be to completely avoid delta rpms if you're planning to use
urpmi.recover.
FILES
/etc/rpm/macros.d/urpmi.recover.macros
AUTHOR
Rafael Garcia-Suarez,
Copyright (C) 2006 Mandriva SA
SEE ALSOurpmi(8), urpme(8)OpenMandriva Linux 2014-01-07 URPMI.RECOVER(1)
