Rollback Patches

[Trevor Hemsley]

Christian Campbell wrote:
>> He's not asking about OS Upgrades.. but more patches etc, so singular
>> application updates.
>>
>> Christian,
>> You can always rollback with rpm -Uvh --force to the old version of the
>> rpm (do you have up2date set to keep the rpm's locally?).
>>
>> What version of RHEL are you running?
>>     
>
> RHEL 4.5.  Keepafterinstall is set to 0 currently.  
>
> So I understand, if I upgraded cpp from 3.4.6-10 to 3.4.6-11, and I needed to roll it back, I could do:
>
> rpm -Uvh --force cpp-3.4.6-10
>   

While --force works, --oldpackage is probably more correct

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Trevor Hemsley
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