[Yum] another question about installing version specific rpms using yum

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 15:09 -0500, Edward Bailey wrote:
> I am sure this is a simple problem for most but we are perplexed by
> this issue and need some help
> 
> We are using yum 2.6 on rhel4 and we are having a problem installing a
> specific version of an rpm. This repo is in our QA vertical and we
> have 3 version of code being tested at any given time. In this
> situation we have 2 rpms of a higher version in the repo than what is
> installed on the server. We have been trying to installed the next
> higher version rpm but not the highest version rpm and the install is
> not working. Yum is reporting that their is nothing to install, but
> yum search is seeing the rpm because we see the correct rpm version as
> output. 
> 
> We can remove the rpm and then install the correct rpm but that is a
> step we are hoping to avoid. Is this expected behavior? Would one of
> the plugins help? Do I need to provide any other information? This is
> my first post to the mailing list and I am not sure what is needed to
> debug the issue.
> 

yum 2.6 is likely to not cope well with not installing the latest
version.

you can exclude the higher version with --exclude - but beyond that
you'll need a newer yum (and a lot of other newer bits to go on rhel4)

-sv