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diff --git a/pod/urpmi.recover.8.pod b/pod/urpmi.recover.8.pod index ae66750e..1cce8077 100644 --- a/pod/urpmi.recover.8.pod +++ b/pod/urpmi.recover.8.pod @@ -10,22 +10,70 @@ urpmi.recover - manages repackaging of old RPMs and rollbacks =head1 DESCRIPTION +B<urpmi.recover> is a tool to help management of RPM rollbacks. It has +three main functions: + +C<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. + +C<urpmi.recover --list> is used to list chronologically all installations +and upgrades on your system. + +C<urpmi.recover --rollback> is used to roll back installations and +upgrades to a previous point in the past (at most until your checkpoint.) + =head1 OPTIONS =over 4 =item --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 F</var/spool/repackage>, or whatever directory you set +the C<%_repackage_dir> rpm macro to. This way one can use them for +rollbacks. + +Technically, using this option writes a file +F</etc/rpm/macros.d/urpmi.recover.macros> that overrides the rpm macros +used to set up the repackaging functionalities of rpm. You can change +C<%_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 +C<%_repackage_all_erasures> to 0 in this file. (Of course if you do so +rollbacks won't be possible anymore.) + =item --noclean -=item --list +C<--checkpoint> defines a new checkpoint and removes everything in the +repackage directory. To prevent this cleaning, use the C<--noclean> +option. + +=item --list <date> + +Lists all installations and upgrades from now since the provided date. The +date parser is quite elaborated, so you can give a date in ISO format or +close to it (C<YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss>) or a duration (e.g. "1 day ago"). =item --list-all -=item --rollback +Lists all installations and upgrades known to the RPM database. + +=item --rollback <date> + +=item --rollback <number of transactions> + +Roll back the system to the given date (see C<--list> for accepted date +formats), or roll backs the given number of transactions. =back +=head1 FILES + + /etc/rpm/macros.d/urpmi.recover.macros + =head1 AUTHOR Rafael Garcia-Suarez, <rgarciasuarez@mandriva.com> |