Hi, I’m currently fine-tuning my DNF Automatic configuration on my Rocky Linux 8 servers. How can I manually downgrade one or a handful of packages ? Ideally without wrecking my system ? And how would I go about that ? This would allow me to test DNF Automatic without having to wait for new availa…

Erm… maybe anybody has a simple one-liner to downgrade a single package (like tzdata or similar) only for testing purposes and without having to jump through burning loops ? Would be much appreciated.

the dnf downgrade option should work for simple cases dnf downgrade tzdata

Here’s what I get: # dnf downgrade tzdata Package tzdata of lowest version already installed, cannot downgrade it. Dependencies resolved. Nothing to do. Complete! Same result with pretty much any other package.

Looks like tzdata has not been updated since since upgrading to Rocky 8.9? Can’t downgrade to a previous 8.8 version. I’ve tested with firefox and that can be downgraded.

You cannot, by default, downgrade to versions of packages from any previous release. This is explained in our version policy . When a new minor release arrives, all previous updates/versions are not carried over. If you absolutely need to downgrade, you will need to setup a way to interact with t…

In Fedora you can add the following repo dnf install fedora-repos-archive this allows the downgrade, or reversal of any single package or even a whole dnf update. whole updates are done with dnf history. I think all RPM distributions should offer this, its not that hard to do, just archive all p…

Thanks for all your input, guys. I found a very simple solution to my problem. Remember that the main objective here was to test DNF Automatic, so I needed to downgrade any random package from my server installation to create the need for an update. I simply chose a package from a third-party reposi…

Manually downgrade a package?

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jbkt23 December 26, 2023, 12:25pm 2

This link to a recent discussion on downgrading may be useful:
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