YUM-DEBUG-RESTORE(1)

💅 NAME

yum-debug-restore — bestie, it's literally just redirecting you to the DNF debug Plugin ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION

Okay so this plugin gives you two whole dnf commands and honestly? They're kind of iconic 👑

• debug-dump — writes your system RPM configuration to a dump file 💾
• debug-restore — restores the installed packages to the versions written in the dump file 🔄

So here's the vibe with debug-restore: by default it does not remove already installed versions of install-only packages, and it only marks those versions that are mentioned in the dump file for installation ✨ The final decision on which versions to keep on the system is left to dnf, and you can fine-tune it with the installonly_limit configuration option (peep dnf.conf(5) for that one) 🎀

⚠️ NOTE: DNF and Yum debug files are not compatible, so they literally can't be used by the other program 💀 no cap, don't try it

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🌸 SYNOPSIS

dnf debug-dump [--norepos] [<filename>]

dnf debug-restore [--output] [--install-latest] [--ignore-arch]
[--filter-types = [install,remove,replace]] <filename>

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🎀 ARGUMENTS

• <filename> — the file to write the dump to or read from, iykyk 🗂️

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

All general DNF options are accepted, see Options in dnf(8) for details 🫶

🧚 dnf debug-dump

• --norepos — do NOT dump the content of enabled repos 🙈

💜 dnf debug-restore

• --filter-types=[install,remove,replace] — limit package changes to the specified type, like, only that one bestie 🎯
• --ignore-arch — when installing a package, ignore architecture and install missing packages matching the name, epoch, version and release 👑 architecture who? never heard of her
• --install-latest — when installing, use the latest package of the same name and architecture ⭐
• --output — only output the list of packages which will be installed or removed, no actual changes are done 👀 (yes, "actuall" in the original, we don't gatekeep typos 💀)
• --remove-installonly — allow removal of install-only packages 🫶

⚠️ Careful bestie: using --remove-installonly may result in an attempt to remove the running kernel version — specifically in situations when the currently running kernel version is not part of the dump file 💀😭 That's not a vibe. Be careful.

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🌈 AUTHOR

See AUTHORS in your Core DNF Plugins distribution 🌸

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🍓 COPYRIGHT

2014, Red Hat, Licensed under GPLv2+ 🎀

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and that's the whole page, bestie — brought to you by dnf-plugins-core version 4.10.1, dated Mar 28, 2025, mwah 💋✨