On 08/03/11 16:55, Ned Slider wrote:

On 08/03/11 15:53, Philippe Naudin wrote:

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Hello,

Is it possible to downgrade to an old version of a package on epel ? I am in troubles with the new dokuwiki-0-0.6.20101107.a.el5, and cannot find dokuwiki-0-0.4.20091225.c.el5.noarch...

Thanks,

You will need to install the "yum-allowdowngrade" package if it's not already installed to allow yum to do this.

Then simply run:

yum downgrade dokuwiki

which should downgrade to the previously available version

Replying to myself... I neglected to mention this relies on the repository keeping old versions available for you to "downgrade" to.

Le mar 08 mar 2011 22:04:27 CET, Nico Kadel-Garcia a écrit:

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Ned Slider ned@unixmail.co.uk wrote:

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On 08/03/11 16:55, Ned Slider wrote:

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On 08/03/11 15:53, Philippe Naudin wrote:

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Hello,

Is it possible to downgrade to an old version of a package on epel ? I am in troubles with the new dokuwiki-0-0.6.20101107.a.el5, and cannot find dokuwiki-0-0.4.20091225.c.el5.noarch...

Thanks,

You will need to install the "yum-allowdowngrade" package if it's not already installed to allow yum to do this.

Then simply run:

yum downgrade dokuwiki

which should downgrade to the previously available version

Replying to myself... I neglected to mention this relies on the repository keeping old versions available for you to "downgrade" to.

Which EPEL does not do. So in general, no, it's not feasible to downgrade EPEL packages.

Thanks Ned and Nico.

Yes, "yum downgrade dokuwiki" says there is nothing available. I can rebuild version 20091225.c from dokuwiki.org, but I don't know if there where any patches added by Epel, and this is likely.

My guess is the source rpm for Epel was the same as the source rpm for Fedora, so I am going to try this one.

I will be more careful with packages coming from other repos than CentOS...

Thanks again,