[Yum] Can Yum install multiple versions of the same RPM?

[Matt Hyclak]

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 12:23:00PM -0600, Wayne Sweatt enlightened us:
> Yes - it can install older versions when specifying the version in  
> the command, but no - not when just using the wildcard *. However, I  
> can script that in my cfengine file to present the version to the yum  
> install command line. No biggie there.
> In either case, I DO have to use the allowdowngrade plugin, otherwise  
> I get a transaction error.
> 
> My next roadblock:
> Is there a allowdowngrade or yum-utils RPM out for RHEL4 - yum 2.4,  
> and it's older libs?
> Maybe I could build a yum-3.0 for RHEL4 and then load yum-utils?
> I've been testing on a Fedora Core 6 box, but this all has to work on  
> a RHEL4 one.
> 
> 

CentOS has a yum-utils available for yum 2.4 - I'm not sure if
allowdowngrade is in it or not. There has been some backporting of certain
utils from newer releases to the yum-utils available for CentOS 4, so it
might be feasible.

Matt

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