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.
Sorry for the frustration.
Thanks
On WednesdayMay 2, 2007, at 12:06 PM, seth vidal wrote:
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 11:31 -0600, Wayne Sweatt wrote:
Yum appears to be feature-poor. I don't like it anymore.
sorry to hear that. I must have missed an email in there.
Looks like I go back to our perl script and rpm to do what is a
completely sane thing to request of a package manager - multiple
version installs from a repo/list.
you can do that with yum look at the installonlypkgs directive in
yum.conf
All it's done here is embarrass me and
yum, not to mention be a waste of time and effort.
I'm not sure how that's happened, but okay.
I see there is a allowdowngrade plugin. I'm running yum 2.4 on
RHEL4u3. No yum-utils out there for <3.0.
Unless anyone has a solution for installing ALL versions of a package
from a repo ...... so long and good luck with this yum thing. Looks
like it was just designed for desktop PC use.
it'll try to install the highest version by default unless you specify
each version completely
yum install mypkg-ver-rel mypkg-ver+1-rel+1 etc, etc
yum was designed for server deployments and large deployments of
systems. It was originally intended to be consistent and to not give
admins big surprises in bad ways.
that's about it. I'm not sure what's made you so angry but I'm
sorry it
has.
good luck,
-sv
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