On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 14:55 +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > Hi, > > what is the best procedure to revert (downgrade) all packages of a > specific repo, e.g. if distri comes with KDE 3.4.0, and KDE 3.5.1 is > available from an auxiliary repo. Upgrading is as easy as enabling this > repo and running "yum update", you all know. Now considering, that > there are some unacceptable bugs, I wanted to revert to the base > packages. > > Manually running "rpm --oldpackage" with all previously updated packages > and their dependencies is a tedious task (given, they're scattered over > several repos..). Anything yum can offer to ease that unfortunate > exercise? downgrading isn't handled by yum mainly b/c the behavior of a downgrade is unknown given that %scriptlets aren't reliably reversable. Could it be implemented? Yes. Would you be able to rely that you actually have your old system back? No. -sv
