Best way to rollback software in rpm?

exceed1 · 05-21-2010, 09:18 AM

Hi

Since the people developing RPM has decided to remove the --rollback and --repackage option in version 4.6 of RPM because it was too unreliable i was wondering how you now would do the best possible rollback from a newer package to an older package... does someone have any good ways to do this except downgrading every package with --oldpackage ?

any help is appericiated

regards,
chris

amani · 05-21-2010, 11:05 AM

there is the yum plugin 'allow-downgrade'

#yum update -allow-downgrade

exceed1 · 05-22-2010, 09:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by amani

there is the yum plugin 'allow-downgrade'

#yum update -allow-downgrade

Im not using yum and im not allowed to use it because we have our own rpm wrapper, but it doesnt always deal with dependencies so good so i'd like to know ways to this with rpm with itself. It should probably been written better to do so but thats not what people here prioritize to do when they have other things that they define as more important.

That being said, ill keep the allow-downgrade plugin in mind for private usage when i can use yum