On Sun, 2013-05-05 at 14:18 -0400, Bob Lightfoot wrote: > 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. Well, no, we're both right :) Obviously your anaconda 'repo' is not actually set up as a yum repo, it's just a directory. So in that case, yeah, if you want to downgrade to a specific .RPM which is not actually in one of your yum repositories, you can specify it explicitly. But as I said, if you have a package installed for which an older version exists in your yum repos, just 'yum downgrade packagename' will work. That case is fairly common for pre-releases, because you usually have updates-testing enabled; so any time a package is in updates-testing, you can 'downgrade' to the version that's in the 'stable' repo, and then as long as the updates-testing repo is enabled, you'll have an update available. -- 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
