How to downgrade a package?
James Wilkinson
fedora at aprilcottage.co.uk
Tue Sep 12 12:32:23 UTC 2006
Gregor Pirnaver wrote:
> Is there ANY way to get an older update? So that if new
> version of a package is causing a problem I can downgrade
> it?
>
> By default yum is configured to remove some older versions
> of kernel, so now I'm having problems downgrading it.
>
> E.g. where could I get kernels:
> xen0 & xenU: 2.6.17-1.2157_FC5
>
> I know it was not the smartest thing to run Fedora (at least
> with Xen3) on a production server, but it was working fine
> for some time and i would like to get back to that state:
Depends...
The first thing you need to do is to actually *find* the RPMs in
question. Yum won't do that for you -- you'd need to look for a mirror
that still carried it. There's an (incomplete) list of mirrors at
http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc5 .
Having downloaded the packages, you could install them with rpm -i. (You
may need to use the --oldpackage flag).
(For other packages, you would use rpm -F).
Hope this helps,
James.
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