FC6 equivalent to Windows System Restore

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, David Timms wrote:

> - saving the complete packages installed list would be good if you end up 
> needing to reinstall from scratch
> { rpm -qa>packages.2006-12-whenever.txt }.

In a standard install, this information is saved by a cron job in 
/var/log/rpmpkgs.  This file is updated nightly and rotated weekly, with 
four generations of backup.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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