On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 00:02 -0400, Robin Norwood wrote: > seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 15:31 +0900, Naoki wrote: > >> The docs don't mention anything about it but I'm wondering if yum can > >> handle this sort of functionality : > >> > >> rpm -Uvh --oldpackage http://kickstart/blah/name > >> > >> Right now it seems yum can install a specific version of a package, > >> but it can't 'rollback' to a version if that RPM is already installed. > >> > >> I'm guessing that's pretty easy for yum to do so maybe it already can > >> and I'm missing something? > > > > installing an older version is not supported in yum. > > > > it could be - but I'm just not sure how happy we should be about > > supporting that process. It is fairly dangerous. > > It can be fairly important - if the newest package breaks something, > it's good to be able to easily install an older version, or a version > between the current version and the newest. It's ok if a special > incantation is needed to force yum to act that way, but if the only way > to get an older package is to go directly to RPM, I think that's less > than optimal. > My concern is mostly with scriptlets. It seems to me that there is no way to reliably reverse a scriptlet of any kind. so reverting to an older version may not necessarily mean a functional system for the user. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
