import os import re import sys def main(opts, args): """Usage: python rollback.py date Parse /var/log/pacman.log, enumerating package transactions since the specified date and building a plan for restoring the state of your system to what it was at the specified date. Assumes: - /var/log/pacman.log has not been truncated - /var/cache/pacman/pkg has not been flushed and still contains all required packages - The above paths are Arch default and have not been customized - That it is not necessary to remove any "installed" packages Note: no attempt is made to inspect the dependency graph of packages to be downgraded to detect when a package is already transitively listed for downgrading. This can create some annoying errors where eg. systemd will be downgraded, meaning libsystemd will also be downgraded, but pacman considers explicitly listing the downgrade of libsystemd when it will already be transitively downgraded an error. """ date, = args print("Attempting to roll back package state to that of {0}...\n" .format(date), file=sys.stderr) # These patterns can't be collapsed because we want to select different # version identifying strings depending on which case we're in. Not ideal, # but it works. # Ex. [2017-04-01 09:51] [ALPM] upgraded filesystem (2016.12-2 -> 2017.03-2) upgraded_pattern = re.compile( ".*? upgraded (?P\w+) \((?P[^ ]+) -> (?P[^\)]+)\)") # Ex: [2018-02-23 21:18] [ALPM] downgraded emacs (25.3-3 -> 25.3-2) downgraded_pattern = re.compile( ".*? downgraded (?P\w+) \((?P[^ ]+) -> (?P[^\)]+)\)") # Ex: [2017-03-31 07:05] [ALPM] removed gdm (3.22.3-1) removed_pattern = re.compile( ".*? removed (?P\w+) \((?P[^ ]+)\)") checkpoint = {} flag = False with open("/var/log/pacman.log") as logfile: for line in logfile: if date in line: flag = True elif not flag: continue match = re.match(upgraded_pattern, line)\ or re.match(downgraded_pattern, line)\ or re.match(removed_pattern, line) if match: package = match.group("name") from_rev = match.group("from") if package not in checkpoint: checkpoint[package] = from_rev continue print("Checkpoint state:") for k in checkpoint.keys(): print("{0} -> {1}".format(k, checkpoint[k]), file=sys.stderr) pkgcache = "/var/cache/pacman/pkg" pkgs = os.listdir(pkgcache) pkgnames = ["{0}-{1}".format(k, v) for k, v in checkpoint.items()] selected_pkgs = set([os.path.join(pkgcache, p) for n in pkgnames for p in pkgs if n in p]) print("Suggested incantation:\n", file=sys.stderr) print("sudo pacman --noconfirm -U {}" .format("\\\n ".join(selected_pkgs))) if __name__ == "__main__": main(None, sys.argv[1:])