yum question, reverting to old packages.

[Panu Matilainen]

On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 16:14 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 23:03 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> 
> > Apt-rpm supports crack like 'apt-get install "foo<1.2"' but hell is
> > going to freeze over a couple of times before Seth will accept things
> > like that in Yum :) OTOH it would probably be possible to write a plugin
> > to "revert to previous version" now, implementation is left as an
> > excercise for the reader though...
> 
> yum already supports >=< options - it was part of the
> provides-based-installs.

So the hell frozen over already god knows how many times :) Didn't
remember that, possibly because it doesn't actually downgrade the
package if already installed to meet the requirement. Anyway, that seems
to work as well with --allow-downgrade now.

	- Panu -