build to point-in-time

[Rick Stevens]

On 05/26/2010 01:56 PM, Shaughnessy, Kevin wrote:
> I have to have a system for some debugging, and we need everything at the same rev as production, which is on 5.3 and has only updated critical security items lately.
>
> How do I use the yum/rpm process to install packages to specific revs, and not the current.
>
> For example, the latest udev might be
>                  udev-095-14.21.el5
> , and I need
>                  udev-095-14.19.el5

You can use "yum downgrade udev-095-14.19.el5".  See the yum manpage
for details.
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