Re: yum guides/docs/explanations

Dave Pawson wrote:
> On 18 June 2010 15:28, seth vidal <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 14:24 +0000, James Williams wrote:
>>> Hi Seth,
>>>
>>>   1) Thanks for all your efforts.
>>>
>>>   2) Do you have a section on explaining rollbacks (no rollbacks), or
>>> what to do when a rpm causes problems with an application and how to
>>> fix.
>> 1. yum history undo is part of that. -  check out the yum history docs
>> 2. yum downgrade is relatively recent and it gives you SOME of thhat but
>> you need to be really careful with downgrade.
>>
>> -sv
> 
> 
> I found downgrade useful recently. What I did find 'strange' was that I needed
> the 'older version' 'to hand' (in my case in the current directory).
> For whatever reason this struck me as odd.
> 
> Perhaps explain this (and why) in the docs?

If you have older package in repositories, you do not need rpm in the 
same directory. But what you need to keep your eye on is that if you 
already have rpm's in the current directory yum will use them for 
installation, so my practice is to leave out of directories with rpm's 
in it.

Ljubomir