On 25/01/17 14:26, Jonathan Billings wrote:
On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 11:32:16AM +0000, lejeczek wrote:
hi guys, gals
do you see this:
~]$ yum downgrade samba Resolving Dependencies [...] --> Processing Dependency: libtevent.so.0(TEVENT_0.9.9) for package: samba-client-libs-4.4.4
..and process fails. chained are i686 arch? Is it only us(centos) or redhat's bugzilla should be notified. Samba downgrade used to work I remember.
Most likely there are dependencies that aren't available in your current repos that are preventing the downgrade. Perhaps its due to the recent point release to 7.1611?
The packages installed with a 'yum downgrade' are unlikely to be supported, so this is probably not really something that CentOS supports.
but Centos should, right? Being able to downgrade can save you a day or a few. I know, for it did save mine several times, eg. buggy samba new update and downgrade fixed it, etc. We absolutely should be able to downgrade every rpm, if this is just a matter of an opinion(I'd fail to see any other reasons to not do it) then my vote goes obviously to - Centos/repos maintainers please make sure "yum downgrade" will always work.
many thank, L