[CentOS] how to downgrade from CentOS 5.2 to CentOS 5.1?
Rudi Ahlers
Rudi at SoftDux.com
Wed Jun 25 14:05:32 UTC 2008
Johnny Hughes wrote:
> Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>> Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>> Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>>>> I've run into some trouble with a new cPanel VPS, and noticed that
>>>> it's running CentOS by default, installed via the CentOS http server.
>>>>
>>>> My question is, how do I downgrade CentOS to 5.1?
>>>>
>>>
>>> There is no way to downgrade, however you can install from a
>>> centos-5.1 tree, but centos-5.1 is 5.2 minus a bunch of security
>>> upgrades.
>>>
>>> We will eventually be moving the 5.1 tree to vault.centos.org, but
>>> if you want to use it for an extended period of time, you should
>>> probably download the tree to a local mirror.
>>>
>>>
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>> Ok, I understand that, I'm just trying to avoid downloading &
>> reinstalling the software on there already.....
>>
> You can do:
>
> rpm -qa --last > lastest_rpms
>
> then edit the file latest_rpms and see what was installed on the upgrade.
>
> You can then downgrade by hand the packages that are causing your
> problems or all of them using:
>
> rpm -Uvh --oldpackage --replacefiles <path_to_old_package>
>
>
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>
Yes, I could do it like this, but this is on a fresh installation of
CentOS, not an upgrade, so I have no packages to compare it to :(
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Kind Regards
Rudi Ahlers
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