Re: problems with yum --allow-downgrade

Nikola Ciprich <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.yum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Seth,
I'm already using 3.2.18 :(
n.

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 09:28:23AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 13:42 +0200, Nikola Ciprich wrote:
> > Hi Seth,
> > sorry to bother, do You have some other idea why this is not working?
> > 
> > I tried a bit of debugging, and it seems that code in postresolve_hook
> > is not reached at all, even if I enable the allow-downgrade flag.
> > 
> > [root@vmnci06 yum-cli]# yum --showduplicates list util-linux
> > Loaded plugins: allowdowngrade, protectbase
> > enabling allowdowngrade!
> > 93 packages excluded due to repository protections
> > Installed Packages
> > util-linux.x86_64                        2.13-0.47.el5          installed
> > Available Packages
> > util-linux.x86_64                        2.13-lb5.01            lbox-testing
> > 
> > [root@vmnci06 yum-cli]# yum --showduplicates --allow-downgrade install util-linux
> > Loaded plugins: allowdowngrade, protectbase
> > enabling allowdowngrade!
> > 93 packages excluded due to repository protections
> > Setting up Install Process
> > Parsing package install arguments
> > Package matching util-linux-2.13-lb5.01.x86_64 already installed. Checking for update.
> > Nothing to do
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > thanks in advance
> > 
> > with best regards
> > nik
> 
> Chances are if it is yum 3.2.8 the reason it is not working is b/c it
> was broken in 3.2.8. It should be working on 3.2.18, though.
> 
> Give it a try.
> 
> -sv
> 
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