{"id":11990,"date":"2026-01-16T23:52:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=11990"},"modified":"2026-02-06T00:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:07:10","slug":"dnf5-history-undo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=11990","title":{"rendered":"DNF5 History *UNDO*?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is cool – I’ve only tested with a package I didn’t need and didn’t matter if it got mucked up. No idea if there’s an undo for, say, kernels. Or if\u00a0undo<\/em> on an update would roll back to the previous version. That’s the sort of testing to do on a sandbox that you don’t want running 30 minutes from now!<\/p>\n

[root@fedora log]# dnf5 install bvi
\nUpdating and loading repositories:
\nRepositories loaded.
\nPackage Arch Version Repository Size
\nInstalling:
\nbvi x86_64 1.5.0-1.fc43 fedora 157.1 KiB<\/p>\n

Transaction Summary:
\nInstalling: 1 package<\/p>\n

Total size of inbound packages is 83 KiB. Need to download 83 KiB.
\nAfter this operation, 157 KiB extra will be used (install 157 KiB, remove 0 B).
\nIs this ok [y\/N]: y
\n[1\/1] bvi-0:1.5.0-1.fc43.x86_64 100% | 351.6 KiB\/s | 83.0 KiB | 00m00s
\n———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
\n[1\/1] Total 100% | 164.9 KiB\/s | 83.0 KiB | 00m01s
\nRunning transaction
\n[1\/3] Verify package files 100% | 142.0 B\/s | 1.0 B | 00m00s
\n[2\/3] Prepare transaction 100% | 2.0 B\/s | 1.0 B | 00m00s
\n[3\/3] Installing bvi-0:1.5.0-1.fc43.x86_64 100% | 243.9 KiB\/s | 160.0 KiB | 00m01s
\nComplete!
\n[root@fedora log]# dnf5 history list
\nID Command line Date and time Action(s) Altered
\n29 dnf install bvi 2026-02-06 04:50:43 1
\n28 dnf remove kernel-core-6.18.3-200.fc43.x86_64 kernel-modules-6.18.3-200.fc43.x86_64 kernel-modules-extra-6.18.3-200.fc43.x86_64 2026-01-14 05:07:22 4
\n27 dnf update 2026-01-14 05:01:58 70
\n26 dnf remove kernel-core-6.17.9-300.fc43.x86_64 kernel-modules-6.17.9-300.fc43.x86_64 kernel-modules-extra-6.17.9-300.fc43.x86_64 2026-01-14 05:01:28 4
\n25 dnf update 2026-01-09 19:19:48 42
\n24 dnf update 2026-01-08 19:57:05 618
\n23 dnf5 remove kernel-core-6.11.10-300.fc41.x86_64 kernel-modules-6.11.10-300.fc41.x86_64 kernel-modules-core-6.11.10-300.fc41.x86_64 2026-01-08 19:53:42 3
\n22 dnf remove kernel-6.11.10-300.fc41 2025-12-26 02:06:47 1
\n21 dnf install speedtest-cli 2025-12-19 23:06:12 1
\n20 yum install chromedriver 2025-12-08 00:20:24 3
\n19 dnf system-upgrade download –releasever=43 2025-12-06 18:40:14 3792
\n18 dnf upgrade –refresh 2025-12-06 08:22:19 1422
\n17 dnf install -y cloud-utils-growpart 2025-12-06 08:16:00 1
\n16 dnf install xmlsec1 xmlsec1-openssl 2025-10-27 20:44:39 1
\n15 yum install xmlsec1 2025-10-27 20:42:29 1
\n14 dnf install mod_md 2025-07-03 19:22:36 1
\n13 yum install npm 2025-06-23 20:05:13 5
\n12 dnf update 2025-02-23 19:56:36 482
\n11 dnf update 2025-01-31 16:01:33 626
\n10 dnf5 install dnf5-plugin-automatic 2025-01-31 15:59:29 9
\n9 yum install xxd 2025-01-15 21:38:38 1
\n8 dnf install mosquitto 2025-01-04 23:40:52 3
\n7 dnf update 2025-01-03 04:51:41 14
\n6 dnf update 2025-01-01 00:19:22 358
\n5 dnf update 2024-12-06 04:30:32 18
\n4 dnf update 2024-12-06 04:14:41 404
\n3 dnf update 2024-11-22 17:21:43 65
\n2 dnf update 2024-11-18 18:33:18 116
\n1 dnf update 2024-11-14 18:58:09 54<\/p>\n

[root@fedora log]# dnf5 history undo 29
\nUpdating and loading repositories:
\nRepositories loaded.
\nPackage Arch Version Repository Size
\nRemoving:
\nbvi x86_64 1.5.0-1.fc43 fedora 157.1 KiB<\/p>\n

Transaction Summary:
\nRemoving: 1 package<\/p>\n

After this operation, 157 KiB will be freed (install 0 B, remove 157 KiB).
\nIs this ok [y\/N]: y
\nRunning transaction
\n[1\/2] Prepare transaction 100% | 4.0 B\/s | 1.0 B | 00m00s
\n[2\/2] Removing bvi-0:1.5.0-1.fc43.x86_64 100% | 35.0 B\/s | 20.0 B | 00m01s
\nComplete!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is cool – I’ve only tested with a package I didn’t need and didn’t matter if it got mucked up. No idea if there’s an undo for, say, kernels. Or if\u00a0undo on an update would roll back to the previous version. That’s the sort of testing to do on a sandbox that you don’t …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-system-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11991,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11990\/revisions\/11991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}