[asterisk-users] Is Asterisk 10 available in Digium Repository? I doesn't show up

[Kevin P. Fleming]

On 02/27/2012 09:05 AM, Jason Parker wrote:
> On 02/26/2012 06:22 PM, Patrick Lists wrote:
>> On 25-02-12 19:47, Jason Parker wrote:
>>> yum and rpm do not support downgrades.
>>
>> Incorrect. There is yum downgrade. See man yum.
>>
>
> yum downgrade is extremely broken.  It fails, often, potentially leaving a
> system in an unrecoverable state.  That is not to mention how poorly conceived
> the concept is.  Consider what would happen if a package upgraded some resource
> to a non-backwards-compatible version.
>
> It is completely unsupported on the Digium repositories.  Please don't try it -
> I will not help fix it.

This is generally true of *all* software packages; the 
developers/maintainers provide mechanisms for upgrading, but not 
downgrading. "simple" downgrades should be possible, but the packages 
aren't marked in any way to indicate whether that could even be done.

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