[NBLUG/talk] How to undo a yum update

[Dave Sisley]

Hey, everybody:

I thought I should follow up on my original post. 
<http://nblug.org/pipermail/talk/2005-September/009406.html>  It's been 
a month or so and I finally worked up the nerve to try an update of my 
xorg* packages.  For anyone facing a similar problem, I suggest starting 
here:  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/XorgUpdateFix

The important info boils down to this:   The package 
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU has a funky postrun script which is supposed to 
help remove the old package when a new one is installed.  As a result, 
some people end up with 2 versions of the package.  The above link 
recommends doing a surgical removal of the offending package:

	rpm -e --allmatches --nodeps --noscripts xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU

and then a reinstall: 

	yum install xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU


I'm hoping that most people using FC4 were able to avoid this.  It may 
be that the offending package was introduced _after_ the package that 
ships with the distro, so you can hop past the bad package if you were 
to install FC4 now.

-dave.

-- 
Dave Sisley
dsisley at sonic.net
roth-sisley.net


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