Re: dumb question about rolling back

"Mike A. Harris" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.xfree86
Organization Red Hat Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 27 Apr 2003, Mike Godfrey wrote:

>Date: 27 Apr 2003 12:08:55 -0400
>From: Mike Godfrey <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Content-Type: text/plain
>List-Id: Red Hat XFree86 list <xfree86-list.redhat.com>
>Subject: dumb question about rolling back
>
>If I go ahead and install the new XFree86-4.3.0-5 via "rpm -Uvh
>XFree86-*.rpm" and I encounter problems, is there a simple way to roll
>back to the previous version of the various XFree packages?

Yep, download the set of RPMs from a previous version-release 
into a directory alone and do:

rpm -Uvh --oldpackage XFree86*.i386.rpm

Keep in mind that no testing is done on downgrading of packages, 
so it is possible that a downgrade could fail or have problems if 
something goes awry.  That said, it generally works ok most of 
the time, and I try to keep it that way.  Problems that do arise, 
generally aren't to difficult to fix up.

-- 
Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat



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