DNF debug Plugin

Description

The plugin provides two dnf commands:

debug-dump
Writes system RPM configuration to a dump file
debug-restore
Restore the installed packages to the versions written in the dump file. By default, it does not remove already installed versions of install-only packages and only marks those versions that are mentioned in the dump file for installation. The final decision on which versions to keep on the system is left to dnf and can be fine-tuned using the installonly_limit (see dnf.conf(5)) configuration option.

Note

DNF and Yum debug files are not compatible and thus can’t be used by the other program.

Synopsis

dnf debug-dump [--norepos] [<filename>]

dnf debug-restore [--output] [--install-latest] [--ignore-arch] [--filter-types = [install,remove,replace]] <filename>

Arguments

<filename>
File to write dump to or read from.

Options

All general DNF options are accepted, see Options in dnf(8) for details.

dnf debug-dump

--norepos
Do not dump content of enabled repos.

dnf debug-restore

--filter-types=[install,remove,replace]
Limit package changes to specified type.
--ignore-arch
When installing package ignore architecture and install missing packages matching the name, epoch, version and release.
--install-latest
When installing use the latest package of the same name and architecture.
--output
Only output list of packages which will be installed or removed. No actuall changes are done.
--remove-installonly
Allow removal of install-only packages. Using this option may result in an attempt to remove the running kernel version (in situations when the currently running kernel version is not part of the dump file).