[ATrpms-users] HOWTO? Need help using yum to install older rpm

Craig Huff huffcslists at gmail.com
Mon Dec 24 02:19:14 CET 2007


There must be a way...

Specifically, I have been unable to figure out how to use yum
to retrieve the appropriate suspend2 rpms from Matthias
Hensler's Suspend2 repository for use with the MythDora 4.0
distribution.  I know this is a separate repository, but the
problem I'm having applies to other packages in general and
this is just the latest instance I have encountered, so I would
appreciate any advice on how to accomplish this in general.

MythDora 4.0 is based on kernel version 2.6.20-1.2944.fc6.
I can see from Matthias' Suspend2 repository that the packages
I need exist, and I could use wget to put them on my local
machine and then use yum localinstall, but it seems as though
there ought to be a way to get them directly.  All my attempts to
explicitly specify one fail and if I just run "yum list available
kernel-suspend2", I get only one available package, namely the
version for 2.6.22,14-72_1.cubbi_suspend2.

Is there a way to do this and does it perhaps have something
to do with the undocumented entry in my yum.conf,
"pkgpolicy=newest"?

Craig.



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