CentOS tips

Downgrade a package

If we want to downgrade a package to a previous highest version that is available in a remote repository, we can use the following command:

sudo yum downgrade <package_name>

We use yum-plugin-versionlock. Install that if it's not already installed:

sudo yum install yum-plugin-versionlock

To pin a package to its current version so that no automatic update will be performed on that package, issue the following command:

sudo yum versionlock <package_name>

To display locked packages:

sudo yum versionlock list

To discard the list:

sudo yum versionlock clear