Yum/dnf Time Constraints
Hey,
i wonder if its possible to use dnf and dictate it to not install packages that are younger then $((today – 7 )) for example. If not directly possible, any other ways to accomplishing it?
Sure, building repos with snapshots would work here but I am looking for additional ways …
4 thoughts on - Yum/dnf Time Constraints
A couple ideas:
1. You could run weekly from a scrpt:
yum –assumeno update
which will create the transaction (but not install it) and save it to
/tmp/ and then rerun that transaction week later:
yum –assumeyes load-transaction
/tmp/yum_save_tx.2021-11-14.13-54.FhQii3.yumtx
2. Write a yum plugin to mask packages from the transaction sack that are less than 7 days old. How are your python skills?
Am 14.11.21 um 14:59 schrieb Phil Perry:
That’s an interesting approach. Not sure if this is still valid for EL8?
Some tests doesn’t show any transaction artifact. Maybe I need to dive deeper …
That seems to be the cleanest solution. Lets see if I find time for that. A quick look into repodata xml files shows that the build time is also there exposed …
Thanks, Leon
Yes, you are correct, ‘yum load-transaction’ is not available in dnf on RHEL8
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5576651
I’m still mostly using el7 so never noticed :-)
Am 15.11.21 um 22:08 schrieb Phil Perry:
I am experimenting with following now …
# echo “recent=7” >> /etc/dnf/dnf.conf
# export DNFARGS=$(for e in $(dnf repoquery –recent) ; do echo -n
“–exclude ${e} ” ;done)
# dnf update ${DNFARGS}