done with initial goals : yumrollback !!

well i should say the past week has been tough , preparing for the exams and also working on this, . . and the good news is that i have almost achieved the initial goals for which this idea was proposed on the forums at www.vit.ac.in/lug/ , some of them are as simple as just uninstalling all the packages that were installed after a particular date using YUM . Well here goes a short summary of some of the work i have put in , the code consists of a set of perl scripts that parse the log file created by yum and then decide which are the packages that are to installed or uninstalled , all these perl scripts are managed by a single 'bash' shell script and this executes the rpm -e and the other commands used for manipulating the packages , and the main puprose for this idea was initially proposed was to undo the changes done through yum and i have achieved that , but at present the scirpts look kind of crude and lack a lot of valuable documentation i should be able to give a lot of modifications and may be implement t completely in C before i add any further functionalities, i need to take out some time for that though . And ya there is one more improvement , i have got the 'yumrollback' project approved on Sourceforge.net and one i am thorough with manipulating code using CVS, once i do this i willl putting up the present scripts up on the repository , so a lot of work ahead !!

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