dnf5 history undo < transaction > should work to revert an update, but I currently get
dnf5 history undo 31
Unknown argument "undo" for command "history". Add "--help" for more information about the arguments.
I added --help
dnf5 history undo 31 --help
Usage:
dnf5 [GLOBAL OPTIONS] history <COMMAND> ...
Query Commands:
list List transactions
info Print details about transactions
Software Management Commands:
store [experimental] Store transaction to a file
Unknown argument "undo" for command "history".
undo
Revert all actions from the specified transaction.
dnf5 history undo last
Undo the last transaction.
dnf5 history undo 4 --ignore-extras
Undo the fourth transaction ignoring extra packages pulled into the reverting transaction.
I should note I am on Fedora 40 Here is dnf info dnf5
dnf info dnf5
4Last metadata expiration check: 0:38:29 ago on Sun 15 Sep 2024 02:39:57 PM EDT.
Installed Packages
Name : dnf5
Version : 5.1.17
Release : 2.fc40
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 1.7 M
Source : dnf5-5.1.17-2.fc40.src.rpm
Repository : @System
Summary : Command-line package manager
URL : https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf5
License : GPL-2.0-or-later
Description : DNF5 is a command-line package manager that automates the process of installing,
: upgrading, configuring, and removing computer programs in a consistent manner.
: It supports RPM packages, modulemd modules, and comps groups & environments.
So is it possible to utilize history, rollback, undo or other featrures to rollback to a previous update with this dnf5
It looks like that the older version simply not has the option implemented on F40, then when I use dnf5 history undo I get =
$ dnf history undo
Unknown argument "undo" for command "history". Add "--help" for more information about the arguments.
While doing it on F41 beta I installed today:
$ dnf5 history undo
Missing positional argument "transaction-id" for command "undo". Add "--help" for more information about the arguments.
It indeed needs the higher version.
@hamrheadcorvette it looks like that the update of the man-page already happened while the command was not implemented.
That’s what it seems. When I tried it yesterday, it also returned a blank. So I guess if I manage to install the newer version maybe I can use the history command like above?
dnf5 history undo 31
I want to go back to the previous state before the 31 transaction.
Story time:
( Because I am still working on getting everything back together after the crash, I haphazardly did this update. Now I’m stuck on some things as some bugs are introduced because of it. I’m disappointed in myself for updating, because I never do that during a big project, but it had been a month and I though “should be fine” I think reverting to that update brings me in line with this final push to finish. )
Thanks for everyone’s feedback. Been going through a lot since the Hardware crash last month so this was annoying. I never do updates in the middle of work, but for whatever reason, sunday I did and now I have to find other solutions for my scripts to gett back working right.
Now, What I ended up doing was going to the dnf5 github page
and adding the dnf nightly package. It ended up installing
dnf update dnf5
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:21 ago on Tue 17 Sep 2024 10:35:24 AM EDT.
Dependencies resolved.
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Package Architecture Version Repository Size
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Upgrading:
dnf5 x86_64 5.2.6.0-20240917005037.13.g8ad4614c.fc40 copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:rpmsoftwaremanagement:dnf-nightly 624 k
dnf5-plugins x86_64 5.2.6.0-20240917005037.13.g8ad4614c.fc40 copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:rpmsoftwaremanagement:dnf-nightly 323 k
libdnf5 x86_64 5.2.6.0-20240917005037.13.g8ad4614c.fc40 copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:rpmsoftwaremanagement:dnf-nightly 1.1 M
libdnf5-cli x86_64 5.2.6.0-20240917005037.13.g8ad4614c.fc40 copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:rpmsoftwaremanagement:dnf-nightly 274 k
Transaction Summary
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Upgrade 4 Packages
The features work here. Buuuuuut. . . I have a lot of conflicts and a lot of
Cannot perform Install action, no match for:
This is really not something can comeback from. So in hindsight, it’s a good place for having system snapshots !
@vgaetera thanks for the reply, The nightly has everything. I probably should have kept it to be honest, but after seeing the results and conflicts I have decided to approach my issues with the bugs in a different way. Reverting this update is basically not possible since I have mesa, nvidia and other conflicts that the tool cannot retrieve any longer. Outside of other conflicts.
It’s been a rough 2 months. . . But we will get through it !
“should be fine”