Wouldn’t it be useful to be able to easily undo a yum/RPM change that you have just made? Well you can. By default yum/RPM do not save roll back information. This feature can easily be enabled by doing the following, however its not perfect and can use a lot of disk space as its repackaging […]
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RPM Examples
December 21st, 2009
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Install RPM: rpm -ivh package.rpm Upgrade RPM: rpm -Uvh package.rpm Import an RPM GPG key: rpm –import /media/cdrom/RPM-GPG-KEY Getting detailed information about the package wget: rpm -qi wget Showing all the files installed by the package wget: rpm -ql wget
Compare RPM’s on two servers
December 21st, 2009
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Useful if your migrating from an old server to a new one and want to check everything needed is installed. First, pull a list of RPM package by name only: rpm -qa –queryformat=’%{NAME}\n’ | sort > server.txt Once you’ve done that on both servers, just use diff to compare the two files: diff serverold.txt servernew.txt […]
