yum question, reverting to old packages.

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 15:31 +0900, Naoki wrote:
> The docs don't mention anything about it but I'm wondering if yum can
> handle this sort of functionality :
> 
> rpm -Uvh --oldpackage http://kickstart/blah/name
> 
> Right now it seems yum can install a specific version of a package,
> but it can't 'rollback' to a version if that RPM is already installed.
> 
> I'm guessing that's pretty easy for yum to do so maybe it already can
> and I'm missing something? 

installing an older version is not supported in yum.

it could be - but I'm just not sure how happy we should be about
supporting that process. It is fairly dangerous.

-sv