revert hal-0.5.7.1 to hal-0.5.7, howto?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Todd Zullinger wrote:
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> Yuandan Zhang wrote:
>> the current hal is hal-0.5.7.1, how to revert it to hal-0.5.7? there
>> are many dependencies on it. I can't simply do 'yum remove hal' and
>> then 'yum install hal'
> 
> Download the hal 0.5.7 rpms from a mirror near you.  Then use rpm to
> install them:
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> rpm -Uvh --old-package hal*-0.5.7-3.i386.rpm
> 
> Yum doesn't handled downgrades.  There are other package managers that
> do AFAIK, though I've not used any of them on fedora (smart and apt
> spring to mind).
> 
> I also added hal to the excludes in /etc/yum.conf to keep the next yum
> update from reinstalling the newer hal:
> 
> exclude=hal hal-devel hal-gnome
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There is a yum plugin in Fedora Extras to allow downgrades - 
yum-allowdowngrade

Rahul