On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 14:42 -0600, Andrew Rice wrote: > Hey all...just curious if anyone has ever run into any trouble using yum for updates.. > anything at all? just curious. > > I use it all the time...finds the dependencies and never had any real issues. > > just curious how you would downgrade a package though if that option is even at all available or not. Don't believe yum does downgrades. Check out smart. http://www.smartpm.org/ http://rpmforge.net/ EL4 packages available from rpmforge. I use yum for normal updates/installs, but smart can help in cherry-picking packages from 3rd party repos (or 2nd party according to rpmforge) or for trouble-shooting dependency problems. Can set priorities on repos to gain finer control on what repos your updates come from. Phil