[Yum] problems with yum --allow-downgrade

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 13:42 +0200, Nikola Ciprich wrote:
> Hi Seth,
> sorry to bother, do You have some other idea why this is not working?
> 
> I tried a bit of debugging, and it seems that code in postresolve_hook
> is not reached at all, even if I enable the allow-downgrade flag.
> 
> [root at vmnci06 yum-cli]# yum --showduplicates list util-linux
> Loaded plugins: allowdowngrade, protectbase
> enabling allowdowngrade!
> 93 packages excluded due to repository protections
> Installed Packages
> util-linux.x86_64                        2.13-0.47.el5          installed
> Available Packages
> util-linux.x86_64                        2.13-lb5.01            lbox-testing
> 
> [root at vmnci06 yum-cli]# yum --showduplicates --allow-downgrade install util-linux
> Loaded plugins: allowdowngrade, protectbase
> enabling allowdowngrade!
> 93 packages excluded due to repository protections
> Setting up Install Process
> Parsing package install arguments
> Package matching util-linux-2.13-lb5.01.x86_64 already installed. Checking for update.
> Nothing to do
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> thanks in advance
> 
> with best regards
> nik

Chances are if it is yum 3.2.8 the reason it is not working is b/c it
was broken in 3.2.8. It should be working on 3.2.18, though.

Give it a try.

-sv