On 9/2/2014 11:37 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > I've had a request to downgrade R on one server, to match three others > (someone who's just left had important scripts, and I assume they break > going a full subrelease...). The server they want downgraded is running > 4.1.0-5; the others are running 3.0.1-1. ALL are CentOS 6.5, yet yum > downgrade tells me "only upgrade available", and yum list R-core-3.0.2\* > gives me "no matching packages". stock 6.5 system with no R, and just EPEL (and PostgreSQL) repository added... this shows R-core as 3.1.0 in EPEL only, no R in the base distribution. so.... what repositories are /you/ using ? # yum list R-\* Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security Determining fastest mirrors epel/metalink | 15 kB 00:00 * base: mirror.steadfast.net * epel: linux.mirrors.es.net * extras: centos.chi.host-engine.com * updates: mirror.supremebytes.com base | 3.7 kB 00:00 epel | 4.4 kB 00:00 epel/primary_db | 6.3 MB 00:02 extras | 3.4 kB 00:00 pgdg93 | 3.7 kB 00:00 pgdg93/primary_db | 128 kB 00:00 updates | 3.4 kB 00:00 updates/primary_db | 4.8 MB 00:03 Available Packages R.x86_64 3.1.0-5.el6 epel R-DBI.noarch 0.2.5-7.el6 epel R-RODBC.x86_64 1.3.6-1.el6 epel R-car.noarch 2.0.16-1.el6 epel R-core.i686 3.1.0-5.el6 epel R-core.x86_64 3.1.0-5.el6 epel R-core-devel.i686 3.1.0-5.el6 epel R-core-devel.x86_64 3.1.0-5.el6 epel R-devel.i686 3.1.0-5.el6 epel R-devel.x86_64 3.1.0-5.el6 epel R-java.x86_64 3.1.0-5.el6 epel R-java-devel.i686 3.1.0-5.el6 epel R-java-devel.x86_64 3.1.0-5.el6 epel R-lmtest.x86_64 0.9.30-1.el6 epel R-msm.x86_64 1.1.4-1.el6.1 epel R-multcomp.noarch 1.2.17-1.el6 epel R-mvtnorm.x86_64 0.9.9994-1.el6 epel R-nws.noarch 1:1.7.0.1-7.el6 epel R-qtl.x86_64 1.32.10-3.el6 epel R-sandwich.noarch 2.2.10-1.el6 epel R-systemfit.noarch 1.1.15-4.el6 epel R-zoo.x86_64 1.7.9-1.el6 -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast