# Upgrade to Rocky Linux 8.5 successfully **URL:** \ **Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\ **Created:** [November 17, 2021, 6:33am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/upgrade-to-rocky-linux-8-5-successfully/4601 "2021-11-17T06:33:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![toracat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/toracat/32/68_2.png) [@toracat](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/toracat)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 5:57pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/upgrade-to-rocky-linux-8-5-successfully/4601/21 "2021-11-18T17:57:05Z")
> Given all that, does _unzip-6.0-45.el8\_4_ → _unzip-6.0-45.el8_ look like downgrade, no-op, or upgrade? On a RHEL 8.5 system, “dnf downgrade unzip” will downgrade unzip to 6.0-45.el8. This is as expected since 6.0-45.el8\_4 \> 6.0-45.el8. ---
**Author:** ![anemarkus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@anemarkus](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/anemarkus)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 7:49pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/upgrade-to-rocky-linux-8-5-successfully/4601/22 "2021-11-18T19:49:27Z")
> [@toracat](#): > > On a RHEL 8.5 system, “dnf downgrade unzip” will downgrade unzip to 6.0-45.el8. This is as expected since 6.0-45.el8\_4 \> 6.0-45.el8. yes. On RHEL media is 6.0-45.el8. After Installation it would update to 6.0-45.el8\_4, because on RHEL you can see all rpms ever published. On Rocky - at least by default - only the packages released for 8.5 are visible → no 6.0-45.el8\_4. Therefore on rocky unzip would stay on 6.0-45.el8. Maybe this qualifies as a bug regarding the “feature for feature, bug for bug” mantra. Another question came up while thinking about this. How will old releases handled? CentOS has the vault. Is a vault planned or will it kept on the mirrors? yum repo definitions pointing to the old releases repositories(disabled, but existent) might be useful. ---
**Author:** ![label](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@label](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/label)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 10:17pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/upgrade-to-rocky-linux-8-5-successfully/4601/23 "2021-11-18T22:17:00Z")
The mirrors should be syncing up that unzip el8\_4 package. unzip was one of those examples that the NEVRA was close to the same and the one that’s just `el8` is the one that snuck through as the latest rather than `el8_4`. There are plans to setup a vault to reduce the amount of versions sitting at dl.rl.o. We haven’t discussed internally how we want to achieve that just yet. Right now old releases will be kept on our tier 0 mirror and it’s optional for mirrors to sync the old releases to reduce sync time on their end. ---
**Author:** ![brian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/brian/32/5777_2.png) [@brian](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/brian)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 4:01am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/upgrade-to-rocky-linux-8-5-successfully/4601/24 "2023-08-25T04:01:24Z")
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