[Yum] installing a specific rpm version

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 16:22 -0700, Sameer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is it possible to install a specific rpm version? Like:
> 
> yum install perl=5.8.0
> 
> instead of picking up the latest each time?
> 

No, that syntax does not work, yum will install the latest one.

at some future version of yum will support the:
yum install foo-1.1 bar-1.1-1 baz.i386 etc syntax

but the foo= syntax won't happen, it's counter-intuitive, imo

-sv