Hey all...just curious if anyone has ever run into any trouble using yum for updates.. anything at all? just curious. I use it all the time...finds the dependencies and never had any real issues. just curious how you would downgrade a package though if that option is even at all available or not. -- Andrew Rice Jr Systems Analyst Carrier Management Systems, Inc. 500 Chestnut Street, Suite 500 Abilene, TX 79602 USA support: (325) 672-0975 office: (325) 677-5900 fax: (325) 676-0529 http://www.nams.net NAMS III, NAMS 2000 Centralized, NAMS BMX
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 14:42 -0600, Andrew Rice wrote:> Hey all...just curious if anyone has ever run into any trouble using yum for updates.. > anything at all? just curious. > > I use it all the time...finds the dependencies and never had any real issues. > > just curious how you would downgrade a package though if that option is even at all available or not.Don't believe yum does downgrades. Check out smart. http://www.smartpm.org/ http://rpmforge.net/ EL4 packages available from rpmforge. I use yum for normal updates/installs, but smart can help in cherry-picking packages from 3rd party repos (or 2nd party according to rpmforge) or for trouble-shooting dependency problems. Can set priorities on repos to gain finer control on what repos your updates come from. Phil