Too new readline on FC8
Jonathan Dieter
jdieter at gmail.com
Fri Feb 1 06:21:52 UTC 2008
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 22:02 -0800, Peter J. Stieber wrote:
> Somehow I managed to load readline-5.2-9.fc8.x86_64 on my Fedora 8 box.
> It seems to be newer than any version currently available from the
> standard mirrors (readline-5.2-7.fc8). I only point to standard
> mirrors. Maybe this newer version was temporarily made available, then
> removed.
FWIW, I have readline-5.2-9.fc8 on my systems; it came through on
January 17.
> This is probably a stupid question, but how do I replace the *-9 version
> with the -7 version using yum?
>
> Is it...
>
> yum install [some kind of force option] readline-5.2-7.fc8
You'd need to download the old package and then rpm -u --oldpackage
<filename>.
Jonathan
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