On 05/05/2013 01:10 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > 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 - It is quite possible I have been doing something wrong, but when I install TCx or RCx and then yum update and foo-0.1 which came from the anaconda install media is updated to foo-0.2; I find that yum downgrade foo and yum downgrade foo-0.1 returns the nothing to downgrade error; but if I yum downgrade /path_to_anaconda_repo/foo-0.1.rpm it works. Not sure if this is something in my test methods and setup or if it should be that way. Bob -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
