Hi,

Running RHEL5u5 and recently ran 'yum update' to update 'latest' and 'patch' however I need to rollback. I have the rollback settings correct but I get an error when trying to rollback.

[root@bnetst50 ~]# rpm -Uhv --rollback 'August 1'
warning: /var/spool/repackage/ImageMagick-6.2.8.0-4.el5_1.1.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 1e5e0159
[root@bnetst50 ~]#

Is there a way to force or bypass this?

t0nypx

On Fedora, the rpm command doesn't have a --rollback option.

But yum has a rollback command. But it doesn't take a date argument.

But if the rpm command is correct, are you sure it didn't complete? It gave a warning, not an error.

But if it didn't complete, you could try rpm's --nosignature switch to tell it to not verify the package signature. (But naturally, that's not advisable.)

i do not think rhel5 had the role back option


not even sure rhel6 dose

fedora dose and so dose Opensuse ( why ?? who knows)

but rolling back is mostly a Microsoft concept


red hat tests things very extensively
and this is the older 5.5 and not he current 5.8 in the 5 series
so you DO have a support contract

You ARE paying RedHat $299 ( or more) per year for support

You might want to use it


if you want to use an older rpm than is in the repos
you will also NEED to add a "exclude " option in the repo files to prevent it from updating

- and it is a royal hassle to do that --

RedHat tech support can talk you through setting that up



what is that version of imagemagick killing that you MUST use some other old version of it?

Thanks for the replies guys.

rpm Rollback is not supported in 6 but it is in 5.

I updated 'latest' and 'addons' & 'patches' when I just wanted to update 'patches'. The only thing imagemagick* is killing is my ability to rollback all the packages I mistakenly updated. Normally when I do a rollback of updated packages it skips through each one and restores them, it takes quite a while (25mins) and in the end I reboot and they previous kernel is the only one there. Now when I do the 'rpm -Uhv --rollback' in runs for 20seconds and all I see is the above error.

I tried with the --nosignature option and all it does is return after 20 seconds with no output, like it did nothing.

Thanks.... any other suggestions welcome please

it looks like my only way out of this is to 'yum erase <package>' and this removes any pre-requisites etc. In my case I will be removing kernel patches that relate to RHEL5u8, even though i'm running RHEL5u5. Then I amend my yum config just to look at 'patches' and this now finds only patches related to RHEL5u5 and I am still then using '2.6.18-194.32.1.0.1.el5xen' as opposed to where I was when I previously updated and was seeing '2.6.18-308.13.1.0.1.el5'

Cheers