Yum disaster! DELETED mysql!

[Temlakos]

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.
> 
> 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?
> 

Yum doesn't downgrade packages.

But Smart does, if that's required to preserve a relationship or to fix 
a problem.

Temlakos