[lug] Backing out yum upgrades

[Jeffrey S. Haemer]

Kevin,

Thank you.

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:30:39 -0600
> "Jeffrey S. Haemer" <jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'd like to do regular package updates on my CentOS 6.2 boxes.  I'd
> > also like to be able to back out selected updates if users say,
> > "*Noooo ...*"
> >
> > I've experimented with individual packages and haven't yet been able
> > to back anything out. I'm even using advice from The Internets, so it
> > must be me. Anyone have helpful advice?
>
> ...snip...
>
> >    1. I originally installed puppet-2.6.16, which came from epel.
> >    2. I saw, from "yum check-updates," that there was an available
> > update for puppet.
> >    3. I ran "yum update puppet," which installed 2.6.17.
> >    4. I tried to downgrade to 2.6.16.
> >    5. Yum commissioned me "Major Loser."
> >
> >
> > What should I be trying instead? [Yeah, yeah.]
>
> The problem is that it needs to have the old package available
> somewhere in order to downgrade to it.
>
> Simple fix would be to grab that version from the buildsystem:
>
>
> http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/puppet/2.6.16/1.el6/noarch/puppet-2.6.16-1.el6.noarch.rpm
>
> then 'yum downgrade ./puppet-2.6.16-1.el6.noarch.rpm'
>
> Better perhaps would be to keep copies of old packages locally.
>
> There's a yum plugin called yum-plugin-local that takes all the
> packages you install and keeps them in a local repo. Of course that
> could take up a lot of disk space over time.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> kevin
>
>
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