Bug 2226661 - Dnf5 doesn't support rollback of transaction history
Summary: Dnf5 doesn't support rollback of transaction history
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dnf5
Version: 39
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
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Assignee: rpm-software-management
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-07-26 06:39 UTC by Martin Osvald 🛹
Modified: 2024-11-27 21:26 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2024-11-27 21:26:23 UTC
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Github rpm-software-management dnf5 issues 140 0 None open Implement history command 2023-07-31 11:12:34 UTC

Description Martin Osvald 🛹 2023-07-26 06:39:03 UTC
If you want to undo e.g. the last transaction `dnf history` doesn't support that.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
# dnf history undo last

or

# dnf history undo XXX 
Actual Results:  
~~~
# dnf history undo last
Unknown argument "undo" for command "history". Add "--help" for more information about the arguments.
#
~~~

or 

~~~
# dnf history list
ID Command line                                           Date and time                 Action(s) Altered
 5 dnf update -y                                          2023-07-26 04:38:05.000000000               346
 4 dnf install rpmdevtools -y                             2023-07-25 11:56:16.000000000                 6
 3 dnf install rpm-build -y                               2023-07-25 11:31:30.000000000                26
 2 dnf builddep rpmbuild/SPECS/rpm.spec --enablerepo=* -y 2023-07-25 11:27:42.000000000               328
 1 dnf install dnf5-plugins -y                            2023-07-25 11:25:51.000000000                21
#

# dnf history undo 5
Unknown argument "undo" for command "history". Add "--help" for more information about the arguments.
#
~~~

Expected Results:  
It should be supported like it is with dnf4:

~~~
# dnf hist list
ID     | Command line                                 | Date and time    | Action(s)      | Altered
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    11 | install mc -y                                | 2023-07-26 02:34 | Install        |    2
...

# dnf hist undo 11
Last metadata expiration check: 0:11:19 ago on Wed 26 Jul 2023 02:25:24 AM EDT.
Dependencies resolved.
===================================================================================================
 Package            Architecture        Version                        Repository             Size
===================================================================================================
Removing:
 mc                 x86_64              1:4.8.29-1.fc38                @updates              7.1 M
Removing dependent packages:
 slang              x86_64              2.3.3-3.fc38                   @fedora               1.6 M

Transaction Summary
===================================================================================================
Remove  2 Packages

Freed space: 8.6 M
Is this ok [y/N]:
~~~

Note: This functionality is often used by customers on RHELs.

Comment 1 Nicola Sella 2023-07-31 10:58:15 UTC
This is tracked upstream: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf5/issues/140

Comment 2 Fedora Release Engineering 2023-08-16 08:13:37 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 39 development cycle.
Changing version to 39.

Comment 3 Aoife Moloney 2024-11-08 11:00:38 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora Linux 39 is nearing its end of life.
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Comment 4 Aoife Moloney 2024-11-27 21:26:23 UTC
Fedora Linux 39 entered end-of-life (EOL) status on 2024-11-26.

Fedora Linux 39 is no longer maintained, which means that it
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