[Yum] Can Yum install multiple versions of the same RPM?

[Wayne Sweatt]

Yeah - I see no allowdowngrade plugin for 2.4.
That would do it though.

On WednesdayMay 2, 2007, at 1:03 PM, Matt Hyclak wrote:

> On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 12:23:00PM -0600, Wayne Sweatt enlightened us:
>> Yes - it can install older versions when specifying the version in
>> the command, but no - not when just using the wildcard *. However, I
>> can script that in my cfengine file to present the version to the yum
>> install command line. No biggie there.
>> In either case, I DO have to use the allowdowngrade plugin, otherwise
>> I get a transaction error.
>>
>> My next roadblock:
>> Is there a allowdowngrade or yum-utils RPM out for RHEL4 - yum 2.4,
>> and it's older libs?
>> Maybe I could build a yum-3.0 for RHEL4 and then load yum-utils?
>> I've been testing on a Fedora Core 6 box, but this all has to work on
>> a RHEL4 one.
>>
>>
>
> CentOS has a yum-utils available for yum 2.4 - I'm not sure if
> allowdowngrade is in it or not. There has been some backporting of  
> certain
> utils from newer releases to the yum-utils available for CentOS 4,  
> so it
> might be feasible.
>
> Matt
>
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