reverting to an earlier package?

David Timms dtimms at iinet.net.au
Wed Jun 13 09:31:12 UTC 2007


Jeffrey Ross wrote:
> on a FC6 system I downloaded the updates for PAM this morning, now I am no
> longer able to do smtp-auth with my MTA (exim - not from the RPM) either I
> need to figure out what changed in the new version of PAM or revert to the
> previous version.  I was running (I believe) pam-0.99.6.2-3.16 the system
> is now running 0.99.6.2-3.22
> 
> How do I go back?
find a mirror with the version you want, download it, and then try:
rpm -Uvh --oldpackage thatpackage....rpm
If it was a series of updates, you might need to get the dependencies of 
the old version as well.

DaveT.




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