How to erase updates?

[Justin W]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Justin W wrote:
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>     I get this when I use your method. It doesn't work!
>>>
>>> Aug 06 13:54:19 Updated: udev.i386 113-8.fc7
>>> Aug 06 13:55:13 Updated: pidgin.i386 2.1.0-1.fc7
>>> Aug 06 13:55:14 Updated: strace.i386 4.5.16-1.fc7
>>> Aug 06 13:55:21 Updated: openssl-devel.i386 0.9.8b-14.fc7
>>> [root at k5di log]# rpm -e udev.i386 113-8.fc7
>>> error: package 113-8.fc7 is not installed
Evidence here.
>>> [root at k5di log]# rpm -qi udev.i386 113-8.fc7
>>> Name        : udev                         Relocations: (not 
>>> relocatable)
>>> ... [snipped] ...
>>> package 113-8.fc7 is not installed
and here.
>> The output format from the yum logs are different from the package 
>> name that you need to pass to RPM. The version string should be 
>> separated from the package name by a dash, and the i386 shouldn't be 
>> needed (unless you're running multilib).  Your command should be more 
>> like:
>>
>> rpm -e udev-113-8.fc7
>>
>> That should match the output you would find if you were to query RPM 
>> just by package name and not by package name + version string. On my 
>> machine:
>>
>> [justin at ra ~]$ rpm -q udev
>> udev-095-17.fc6
>>
>>
>> Justin W
>>
>     I'm sorry Justin you simply do not understand. I have to replace 
> the existing updated rpm with an older one. hard to do!
>
>
No, I understood that you wanted to downgrade, but you were inputting 
the names into rpm incorrectly.  I've never had much luck with 
downgrading, so I'm not going to give broken advice (there's seems to be 
enough on the list already at times). I was just hoping to enlighten.

Justin