Bug 74627

Summary:	[RFE] Support downgrades
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Network	Reporter:	Mike McLean <mikem>
Component:	RHN/Release	Assignee:	Todd Sanders <tsanders>
Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX	QA Contact:	Red Hat Satellite QA List <satqe-list>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	RHN Stable	CC:	alikins, bretm, cturner, gafton, gdk, jturner, mihai.ibanescu, taw
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2008-02-20 20:49:18 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	414671

Description Mike McLean 2002-09-27 21:38:01 UTC

This is the sequence of events that I went through:
1) install 7.2 (minimal + up2date + rhn_register + deps)
2) upgrade up2date + rhn_register (+deps) with latest 7.2 errata
3) rhnreg_ks --serial blahblahblah.............
4) up2date -u -i -f --nosrc --nox
5) save /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid somewhere else

6) Completely wipe machine and install 7.1 (minimal + ....)
7) upgrade up2date + .... w/ latest 7.1 errata
8) copy saved (7.2) systemid file to /etc/systemconfig/rhn/systemid
9) up2date -p --nox
10) up2date -u -i -f --nosrc --nox

This is what happened:
On the up2date in step 10, 7.2 updates were applied.  /etc/redhat-release says 7.2.

Comment 1 Josef Komenda 2002-10-14 14:17:06 UTC

RHN currently supports upgrades, not downgrades, so this is more of an RFE.
Assigning to gdk for disposition.

Comment 2 Mike McLean 2004-06-10 16:55:25 UTC

Did this feature ever get added?

Comment 3 Fanny Augustin 2006-11-14 21:04:23 UTC

Reassigning  bugs from gdk (old RHN engineering Manager) to tsanders (current
RHN engineering manager)

Comment 4 Bill C. Riemers 2008-02-20 20:49:18 UTC

This feature has remained in the queue this long, because it does not seem feasible.

Comment 5 Mike McLean 2008-02-21 15:30:47 UTC

While I no longer maintain the system where I encountered this problem, I would
like to clarify what the request is. It is /not/ to support the downgrade of an
installed system via up2date, but merely to recognize that a system has been
downgraded by an administrator and fix the base channel subscription.

Short of that, it would have been sufficient to provide a scriptable way for
change the channel subscription from the host. Perhaps that is already there now.