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?"