yum downgrade?

[Ed Greshko]

Knute Johnson wrote:
> There was a recent update to dovecot that caused it to not work.  I 
> used yum and deleted the new one and installed the older version.  It 
> works fine now.  My question is what will yum automatically update 
> dovecot the next time it is run?  Do I need to set something to 
> prevent that from happening?  How do I know that there is a fix 
> version available if I've disabled updating for dovecot?

If you normally run "yum update" you can change your procedure to simply
run "yum --exclude=dovecot* update".

Can always check to see what updates are available by "yum check-update".


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