On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 21:07 -0400, Bob Lightfoot wrote: > Dear Testers: > I have run the test at > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_desktop_updates several fimes > recently and would like to propose the following clarifiction addition > for others who might run this test. > > How to Test step 5 reads "Wait for more updates to become available, > manually downgrade some packages so updates for them are again > available, or re-install " > > I wish to add a box note like the "Tip for shortening the waiting time > to the updates notification" called "Tip for manually downgrading > packages". > > > "Tip for manually downgrading packages". > To find a package to downgrade the following steps can be taken: > 1. Open a terminal and login as root or use sudo for the following commands. > > 2. Run command <yum history list> to deterime the instance number of the > last yum update, most likely it will be 2. > > 3. Run command <yum history info #instance-number#> #instance-number# is > the last instance from yum history. > > 4. Choose a package or packages from the info list, it may be necessary > to pipe the output to less or more to view. > > 5. Run command <yum downgrade /path_to_package/packagename.rpm and let > yum downgrade the package. The idea seems fine, though you don't need to pass a path or the extension '.rpm' to downgrade a package; just 'yum downgrade packagename' will work if an available repo has an older version of a package. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
