Re: yum guides/docs/explanations

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On 18 June 2010 15:28, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 14:24 +0000, James Williams wrote:
>> Hi Seth,
>>
>>   1) Thanks for all your efforts.
>>
>>   2) Do you have a section on explaining rollbacks (no rollbacks), or
>> what to do when a rpm causes problems with an application and how to
>> fix.
>
> 1. yum history undo is part of that. -  check out the yum history docs
> 2. yum downgrade is relatively recent and it gives you SOME of thhat but
> you need to be really careful with downgrade.
>
> -sv


I found downgrade useful recently. What I did find 'strange' was that I needed
the 'older version' 'to hand' (in my case in the current directory).
For whatever reason this struck me as odd.

Perhaps explain this (and why) in the docs?

And thanks for a great product btw. I'd be back on M$ kit without it.

regards




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