Adventurous yet Safety-Minded

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 04:06:58AM -0800, Steven I Usdansky wrote:
> Instead of worrying about the occasional brokenness caused by an
> update to a stable release, how about focusing on a mechanism to
> easily recover from it? As long as the update hasn't corrupted any
> critical files, my non-optimal solution is to head over to koji,
> grab the last version of the broken package set that worked for me,
> and install. If yum could be persuaded to stash the required deltas
> locally, and downgrade using those local deltas upon request, I'd be
> a very happy camper.

Yum has a 'yum downgrade' subcommand for quite a while now.

Not sure if the yum cache stashes the older copies though.

Rich.

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