[Yum-devel] pain and suffering and allowdowngrade

[James Braid]

Seth Vidal wrote:
>> 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

Neat, I think a tiny wrapper around yum shell might do the trick for 
what we need. I'd completely forgotten about yum shell to be honest... 
thanks!