[CentOS] Epel and yum downgrade : possible ?

Wed Mar 9 03:04:27 UTC 2011
Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com>

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

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