Bug 496387
| Summary: | can't downgrade packages | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Michal Schmidt <mschmidt> |
| Component: | yum | Assignee: | Seth Vidal <skvidal> |
| Status: | CLOSED UPSTREAM | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 10 | CC: | ffesti, james.antill, pmatilai, tim.lauridsen |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2009-04-18 19:28:15 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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This is known, we fixed it by putting the downgrade functionality into core yum upstream. When a post 3.2.22 yum makes it back into F-10, it'll work (and obsolete the broken plugin). |
Description of problem: There does not seem to be any working way to downgrade a package using yum (I know I can use 'rpm -U --oldpackage ...', but I'd rather use yum directly). I tried two methods: using yum-allowdowngrade and using yum shell None worked. Example of using yum-allowdowngrade: [root@vF10 ~]# rpm -q icecream icecream-0.9.3-6.fc10.x86_64 [root@vF10 ~]# yum list --showduplicates icecream Loaded plugins: allowdowngrade, changelog, refresh-packagekit, remove-with- : leaves Installed Packages icecream.x86_64 0.9.3-6.fc10 installed Available Packages icecream.i386 0.8.0-11.20080117svn.fc9 fedora icecream.x86_64 0.8.0-11.20080117svn.fc9 fedora icecream.i386 0.9.3-6.fc10 updates-testing icecream.x86_64 0.9.3-6.fc10 updates-testing [root@vF10 ~]# yum --allow-downgrade install icecream-0.8.0 Loaded plugins: allowdowngrade, changelog, refresh-packagekit, remove-with- : leaves Setting up Install Process Parsing package install arguments Package matching icecream-0.8.0-11.20080117svn.fc9.x86_64 already installed. Checking for update. Nothing to do Example of using yum shell: [root@vF10 ~]# yum shell Loaded plugins: allowdowngrade, changelog, refresh-packagekit, remove-with- : leaves Setting up Yum Shell > remove icecream-0.9.3 Setting up Remove Process > install icecream-0.8.0 Setting up Install Process Parsing package install arguments Package matching icecream-0.8.0-11.20080117svn.fc9.x86_64 already installed. Checking for update. > run --> Running transaction check ---> Package icecream.x86_64 0:0.9.3-6.fc10 set to be erased --> Finished Dependency Resolution ================================================================================ Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================ Removing: icecream x86_64 0.9.3-6.fc10 installed 1.2 M Transaction Summary ================================================================================ Install 0 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 1 Package(s) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-3.2.21-2.fc10.noarch yum-utils-1.1.19-1.fc10.noarch yum-allowdowngrade-1.1.19-1.fc10.noarch rpm-4.6.0-2.fc10.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: follow the two examples Actual results: yum never replaces the package with the specified older version. Expected results: At least with yum-allowdowngrade yum should be able to downgrade the package.