On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, James Braid wrote:
> seth vidal wrote: >> Been thinking about allowdowngrade. >> >> How does that work for things like this: >> >> yum --allowdowngrade update \* >> >> Does that revert you back to GA of your distro? >> >> If we bit the bullet and put in a downgrade command or implemented it in >> plugin what is the behavior for it? >> >> I'm not looking for bikeshedding, pony-desiring requests. I'm looking >> for real thoughts on how downgrades should work. Maybe downgrade bans >> wildcards? > > I'm replying as a sysadmin who is frustrated that the yum-allowdowngrade > plugin doesn't work. > > From my point of view the only thing I want to do with downgrade is > install older versions of packages (i.e. yum install foo-1.0.1 when > foo-2.0.1 is installed). > > That's it - we have an internal repo which has a bunch of different > local packages with different versions and I want to be able to switch > between them without resorting to using rpm directly. > > It would be nice if this simple use case was possible. I think anything > more complex (downgrading your entire distro) isn't really useful in the > real world. So yes, I think downgrade should ban wildcards. for your case does: yum shell > remove foo-2.0 > install foo-1.0 > run work? -sv _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list Yum-devel@lists.baseurl.org http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
