On Sunday 05 February 2006 15:20, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Then, you need the advice of somebody that has gone the same route as you.
I've done what I advised Erik to do (YaST ncurses in run level 3) to downgrade from a system-wide update that broke my desktop... it's a chore but it has a good chance of getting him back to his desktop.
For example, I'd use:
rpm -q -a --queryformat "%{INSTALLTIME}\t%{INSTALLTIME:day} %{BUILDTIME:day} %-30{NAME}\t%{VERSION} %{RELEASE} %35{PACKAGER}\n" | sort | less -S
which produces an rpm list ordered by install date with some data fields; the last one identifies the packager, which could help you identify them.
The next thing needed, of course is a script :-) to pump that data into rpm to effect the necessary changes. It would sure beat "hunting and pecking" through ncurses YaST and marking each individual package. You could write something like that, couldn't you Carlos? (nudge nudge) :-) Carl