On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 19:44, Johnny Hughes wrote:
Will any or all of apt/up2date/yum do the right thing if you ask it to install a version of a package that is in the repository but not the most current. I was under the impression that yum could do that, but have not been able to with the yum version in Centos 3.5.
The new versions of yum and smartpm use the repomd (repodata directory) info for updates. Neither will use the old (headers) directory structure.
It looks like under Centos4 I can: yum install nx-0-1.4.0-4.1.centos4 even though nx-0-1.5.0-0.centos4 is also in the repository and would be the default for 'yum install nx'.
But under Centos3.5 I can't do the equivalent yum install gaim-1-1.3.1-0.el3 or even specify the latest gaim-1-1.3.1-0.el3.3
Is that a new feature or am I doing something wrong?