yum question, reverting to old packages.

[Paul B Schroeder]

Here's a mini-rollback howto:

http://blog.chris.tylers.info/index.php?/archives/17-How-to-Rollback-Package-UpdatesInstallation-on-Fedora.html


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?
> 

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Uplogix, Inc. (http://www.uplogix.com/)