On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 14:55 +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > 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? If it is just kde related stuff in there (no replacements of more exciting things), I'd do something like yum erase 'kde*' check around that there are no other packages from that repo hanging around, disable the repo in yum, and then yum install (small list of top level kde apps you want) or I guess yum groupinstall KDE may work... Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ]
