[Yum] downgrade howto?

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Fri Nov 12 21:12:24 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 16:06, mw-list-yum at csi.hu wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 07:40:01PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 16:42 -0600, mw-list-yum at csi.hu wrote:
> > > Since my FC2-FC3 upgrade disabled my box, I'd like to revert the
> > > changes.
> > > 
> > > Can I somehow use yum to downgrade by box to FC2?  Is there a
> > > downgrade howto I could read?
> > > 
> > > In fact, it probably is enough to downgrade all packages depending on
> > > xorg-x11.
> > > 
> > 
> > No, There is no way to revert the changes. Not only that but you
> > probably don't want to do that.
> > 
> > You probably want to install FC3 from anaconda and see if it helps you
> > out.
> 
> Unfortunately, it did not: I let anaconda reinstall the xorg packages
> and the kernel package but X still locks up immediately.  So I did
> 
> yum remove "*xorg*"
> 
> Then reinstalled all those packages (and those depending on them) from
> FC2 with yum, and now it all works well again.
> 
> My point is that the screwup was not caused by yum, but something is
> very seriously wrong with xorg-x11 for FC3, that does not work with my
> Radeon 7000 (or some other hardware).
> 

Gotcha. Well in that case you probably need to look at red hat bugzilla.

Good luck.
-sv





More information about the Yum mailing list