Karanbir Singh wrote: <snip> > ... the aim of > having it in that order is that you can then work back from the most > recent change and go back in time to the last known good state. ( the > date/time stamp is important - to me anyway ) Hey, thanks for your thoughts. Recent portions of rpm -qa --last are attached, in case it is helpful. I feel like a deer in headlights. <snip> > so, make sure you are never without a rpm + python and yum pkg. this is > where the --oldpackage comes in handy, you can use this to do a bunch of > pkgs at one time. My latest draft strategy (thoughts appreciated): rpm --oldpackage -Uvh *.rpm in a directory containing: libselinux-1.19.1-7.i386.rpm libxml2-2.6.16-6.i386.rpm libxml2-python-2.6.16-6.i386.rpm neon-0.24.7-4.i386.rpm popt-1.9.1-11_nonptl.i386.rpm python-2.3.4-14.1.i386.rpm rpm-4.3.3-11_nonptl.i386.rpm rpm-libs-4.3.3-11_nonptl.i386.rpm rpm-python-4.3.3-11_nonptl.i386.rpm yum-2.4.0-1.centos4.noarch.rpm Concerns (possibly not removed, or would RPM do this??, negative dependency??): Installed: libbeecrypt6.i386 4.1.2-9.2_11.el4.at Installed: librpm4.3.i386 4.3.3-8_41.el4.at Installed: librpm4.4.i386 4.4.2-15.1_58.el4.at Installed: python24.i386 2.4.1-2_8.el4.at Updated: libselinux-devel.i386 1.23.10-1.99_3.el4.at Installed: sqlite-devel.i386 3.2.2-1 Updated: libxml2-devel.i386 2.6.22-1_21.el4.at Installed: neon-devel.i386 0.24.7-5.99_2.el4.at Updated: rpm-devel.i386 4.4.2-15.1_58.el4.at Installed: atrpms.noarch 67-1.at Installed: libxml2-python24.i386 2.6.22-1_22.el4.at Installed: rpm-python24.i386 4.4.2-11_9.el4.at -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: rpm.qa.last.txt URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060304/7d56bc8e/attachment-0005.txt>