[CentOS] Downgrade libgcc & gcc packages (is there a clean way)

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Alan Hodgson wrote:
> On Monday, August 09, 2010, Dan Burkland <dburklan at nmdp.org> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have been tasked with "fixing" one of our CentOS boxes by somehow
>> downgrading the libgcc and gcc packages to a specific version (Required
>> by the Oracle Grid Control client). Normally I'd just remove and
>> reinstall the packages however removing libgcc is no fun as I found out
>> the hard way it breaks pretty much every package including rpm & yum. Is
>> there an elegant way to downgrade the currently installed libgcc & gcc
>> packages?
>>
>
> no.

Why not yum downgrade gcc libgcc?

      mark "or, um, just how far down do you need to go?"