[Yum-devel] Looking for help with a Yum plugin...

[Douglas Kilpatrick]

Seth Vidal wrote:
> Now, yum will not automatically downgrade pkgs as a depresolving step - 
> it's generally a bad idea anyway b/c it could very well mean downgrading 
> into a security whole or walking to backward incompatible versions of 
> things. No fun.

In my experience in large systems, much more downtime is caused from 
deploying poorly tested code than from attackers. :)

> If you want to write a plugin to do this you'd be best off just calling 
> downgrade() for each of the pkgs you want to downgrade and then letting 
> yum depsolve normally from there.

I just pulled the current source, and I don't understand what you're 
suggesting...

Doug
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