How to list the version of installed packages in repository?

[Yuan Yijun]

Hi,

I just enabled updates-testing repo and tried some packages, now I
want to revert (downgrade) to release version. How should I do this? I
have installed "allow downgrade" plugin, but it requires package
versions to be specified on command line (since there is only one
choice, why should it ask for this?)

I cannot find package versions easily, "yum list available" returns
nothing since the package is already "installed", and "yum list all"
can only return the "installed" records. Plain "yum list" can return
everything, though it is so hard to use.

Thanks!



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[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 19:03:48 +0800, Yuan Yijun wrote:

>  Hi,
>  
>  I just enabled updates-testing repo and tried some packages, now I
>  want to revert (downgrade) to release version. How should I do this? I
>  have installed "allow downgrade" plugin, but it requires package
>  versions to be specified on command line (since there is only one
>  choice, why should it ask for this?)
>  
>  I cannot find package versions easily, "yum list available" returns
>  nothing since the package is already "installed", and "yum list all"
>  can only return the "installed" records. Plain "yum list" can return
>  everything, though it is so hard to use. 
Disable updates-testing and run

  yum list extras

to list the packages which are not found in the enable repos.
Then run

  yum --showduplicates list available PKGNAME

or

  yum --showduplicates list all | grep PKGNAME

to list the other package versions available in the repos. What this
option does is explained in the manual.

[Yuan Yijun]

2008/7/5 Michael Schwendt <mschwendt.tmp0701.nospam(a)arcor.de&gt;:
>   yum --showduplicates list available PKGNAME
>  
OK, got it. Guess it may work. Thanks!

/me still want --allow-downgrade easier to use for a tester.


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