FC6 equivalent to Windows System Restore

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Filip Tsachev wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On 07/12/06, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
>
>
> I was thinking if there's a quick way to use this file automatically when
> doing re/install?

If all your RPM files follow the naming convention 
<rpm-name>-<version>.<arch>,rpm, then just put all the RPM files in a 
directory and write a script to read the rpmpkgs file a line at a time and
"rpm -ivh filename".  Run the script in that directory.

There are all sorts of ways to get the args in the file passed to the rpm 
command.

If not all RPM files follow the convention, you may have some fixing up to 
do by hand.

>
> Cheers,
> Filip
>

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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