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 -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263 _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
