Yum disaster! DELETED mysql!

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at redhat.com
Tue Nov 8 05:27:57 UTC 2005


Kenneth Porter wrote:

> --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. 

No. It doesnt downgrade packages

regards
Rahul




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