distro-sync seemed to do the trick - thanks to both of you! :)

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Michael Schwendt <mschwe...@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:32:59 +0100, RH (Reindl) wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Am 20.02.2012 14:31, schrieb Christopher Svanefalk:
> > > Assuming I have a package installed from updates-testing, is there any
> simple away (apart from erasing and
> > > reinstalling) to replace it with the equivalent package from the
> normal updates repository? Trying to avoid
> > > breaking dependencies.
> >
> > yum update --distro-sync
>
> if updates-testing is disabled, else add --disablerepo=updates-testing
>
> Alternatively:
>
>  yum downgrade PACKAGEBASENAME
>
> if it's just a single package.
>
> Btw, you cannot break RPM dependencies that way unless you play with
> --nodeps
> installation via "rpm". Yum would refuse to break RPM dependencies.
>
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