[Yum] yum 3.2.23 released
Gerry Reno
greno at verizon.net
Thu May 21 17:09:39 UTC 2009
Seth Vidal wrote:
> Hi folks,
> Yum 3.2.23 is available. Yet more bugfixes and a fair number of new
> items:
>
>
> - downgrade command - you can now run (in a limited sense) downgrades.
> It's not guaranteed to depsolve properly but if you specify the pkgs
> properly it should download and work. Useful for reverting a broken
> upgrade pkg. But don't try reverting a whole distro update. Chances
> are LOW that it will work for you.
>
> - yumdb - this is a separate, simple-text "database" of information
> about each package that you install/update. Specifically information
> like what repo a package was installed from, why it was installed,
> etc, etc. More things will be added here as we progress. Right now, if
> you install a pkg you can see what repo it came from in yum info
> pkgname output.
>
This is great. Now some metadata about package tracking. Downgrade is
very nice too. Now you can escape from a broken update situation.
Kudos.
Regards,
Gerry
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