[CentOS] Epel and yum downgrade : possible ?

Tue Mar 8 16:59:58 UTC 2011
Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk>

On 08/03/11 16:55, Ned Slider wrote:
> On 08/03/11 15:53, Philippe Naudin wrote:
>> 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.