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

[Axel Thimm]

Hi,

On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 07:19:14PM -0600, Craig Huff wrote:
> 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"?

in general yum by design only looks at the latest packages. There is a
tool (yum-download?) that eases the wget part by looking at the repo
definition and doing the wget for you, but if you want to do more
sophisticated work with old packages then you need smart or apt.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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