Yum disaster! DELETED mysql!

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Monday, November 07, 2005 2:27 PM -0600 Thomas Cameron 
<thomas.cameron at camerontech.com> wrote:

> Very possibly.  The thing is, if Amarok uses MySQL, I am betting big
> that according to the FC distro comps.xml file, Amarok uses MySQL 3.x.
> When you updated, yum just did its best to get you up to date according
> the comps.xml file.

Does yum downgrade packages? I've installed RPMs with a higher version than 
what's available from my configured repos (typically packages I've built 
myself), and haven't seen yum try to replace them with down-level packages.

I'm suspecting that there's something fishy about the version information 
in the installed package that caused yum to think the repo package was a 
higher version. Was it installed from tarball, bypassing RPM, perhaps?