Yum/dnf Time Constraints

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Hey,

i wonder if its possible to use dnf and dictate it to not install packages that are younger then $((today – 7 )) for example. If not directly possible, any other ways to accomplishing it?
Sure, building repos with snapshots would work here but I am looking for additional ways …

4 thoughts on - Yum/dnf Time Constraints

  • A couple ideas:

    1. You could run weekly from a scrpt:

    yum –assumeno update

    which will create the transaction (but not install it) and save it to
    /tmp/ and then rerun that transaction week later:

    yum –assumeyes load-transaction
    /tmp/yum_save_tx.2021-11-14.13-54.FhQii3.yumtx

    2. Write a yum plugin to mask packages from the transaction sack that are less than 7 days old. How are your python skills?

  • Am 14.11.21 um 14:59 schrieb Phil Perry:

    That’s an interesting approach. Not sure if this is still valid for EL8?
    Some tests doesn’t show any transaction artifact. Maybe I need to dive deeper …

    That seems to be the cleanest solution. Lets see if I find time for that. A quick look into repodata xml files shows that the build time is also there exposed …

    Thanks, Leon

  • Am 15.11.21 um 22:08 schrieb Phil Perry:

    I am experimenting with following now …

    # echo “recent=7” >> /etc/dnf/dnf.conf

    # export DNFARGS=$(for e in $(dnf repoquery –recent) ; do echo -n
    “–exclude ${e} ” ;done)

    # dnf update ${DNFARGS}