Dear lazy web,
I’m looking for a easy way to rollback the last installation with yum (included dependencies, of course).
Let’s see a use case:
- Install something: yum install erlang.
- That will result in the installation of erlang and three dependencies (tcl, tk and unixODBC).
- Then do some stuff, and later uninstall those packages (all of them, including the dependencies).
It would be great to have a yum command to do this (yum rollback?).
I’m thinking about programming a little plugin to do it, but first I want to be sure I’m not missing something. Don’t be shy and share you knowledge in the comments!
You know I think that one of the best features of Fedora 11 it’s Presto. Today I’ve discovered one little side effect of this awesome YUM module.
I was updating my system after a week out of town when I realized my CPU was at 100% of use and 70⁰C. I switched on the cooler dock of the laptop and… what’s using my CPU? Because I’m doing nothing… and here you are:
$ top -n 1 | grep apply
3116 root 30 10 8000 6532 492 R 90.5 0.6 1:31.38 applydeltarpm
Yes, seems that the bandwidth save isn’t free; it has some computing cost. It’s OK as long as you remember to switch on your laptop’s dock when you’re in Spain and it’s about 30⁰C in your town.
After being an old FreeBSD/OpenBSD user and Debian (now Ubuntu) lover, using yum it’s a pain in the ass (oh, aptitude, apt-get and co; I love you… and I miss you all).
Today I had to install some packages in an OpenSuse 10. After using YaST for a while… OK, I admit YUM is not as bad as it seems.
Anyway, a package manager is not something to worry about in a Linux distro because you’re most of the time doing real stuff rather than installing software. It’s a pity that my work actually it’s installing software.
