QA:Testcase_desktop_updates proposal

[Adam Williamson]

On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 21:07 -0400, Bob Lightfoot wrote:
> Dear Testers:
>     I have run the test at
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_desktop_updates several fimes
> recently and would like to propose the following clarifiction addition
> for others who might run this test.
> 
> How to Test step 5 reads "Wait for more updates to become available,
> manually downgrade some packages so updates for them are again
> available, or re-install "
> 
> I wish to add a box note like the "Tip for shortening the waiting time
> to the updates notification" called "Tip for manually downgrading
> packages".
> 
> 
> "Tip for manually downgrading packages".
> To find a package to downgrade the following steps can be taken:
> 1. Open a terminal and login as root or use sudo for the following commands.
> 
> 2. Run command <yum history list> to deterime the instance number of the
> last yum update, most likely it will be 2.
> 
> 3. Run command <yum history info #instance-number#> #instance-number# is
> the last instance from yum history.
> 
> 4. Choose a package or packages from the info list, it may be necessary
> to pipe the output to less or more to view.
> 
> 5. Run command <yum downgrade /path_to_package/packagename.rpm and let
> yum downgrade the package.

The idea seems fine, though you don't need to pass a path or the
extension '.rpm' to downgrade a package; just 'yum downgrade
packagename' will work if an available repo has an older version of a
package.
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