[Yum-devel] pain and suffering and allowdowngrade

[Seth Vidal]

On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, James Braid wrote:

> seth vidal wrote:
>> Been thinking about allowdowngrade.
>>
>> How does that work for things like this:
>>
>> yum --allowdowngrade update \*
>>
>> Does that revert you back to GA of your distro?
>>
>> If we bit the bullet and put in a downgrade command or implemented it in
>> plugin what is the behavior for it?
>>
>> I'm not looking for bikeshedding, pony-desiring requests. I'm looking
>> for real thoughts on how downgrades should work. Maybe downgrade bans
>> wildcards?
>
> I'm replying as a sysadmin who is frustrated that the yum-allowdowngrade
> plugin doesn't work.
>
> From my point of view the only thing I want to do with downgrade is
> install older versions of packages (i.e. yum install foo-1.0.1 when
> foo-2.0.1 is installed).
>
> That's it - we have an internal repo which has a bunch of different
> local packages with different versions and I want to be able to switch
> between them without resorting to using rpm directly.
>
> It would be nice if this simple use case was possible. I think anything
> more complex (downgrading your entire distro) isn't really useful in the
> real world. So yes, I think downgrade should ban wildcards.

for your case does:

yum shell
> remove foo-2.0
> install foo-1.0
> run


work?


-sv