Jon Peatfield wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Troy Dawson wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> After some intense investigation, I believe our best plan for NetworkManager 
>> on SL 50, 51, and 52 is to downgrade their NetworkManager to the original 
>> version that came with the respective releases.
>> In order to downgrade in a nice manner, the rpm names are going to have to be 
>> a little long, and there are going to be two of them.
>> 0.7.0-4.sl5_0.0.6.4 - for SL50 and 51 - really version 0.6.4
>> 0.7.0-4.sl5_2.0.6.4 - for SL52 - really version 0.6.4 that came with SL52
>> If anyone has a better naming scheme that works, or has any better ideas on 
>> how to fix all the problems the update caused, please let me know.
>>
>> To test
>>
>> SL50, SL51, SL52
>> -------
>>     yum --enablerepo=sl-testing update NetworkManager\*
>>     (Note: This will install the version for SL52)
>>
>> or you can download rpm's by hand at
>>
>> http: //ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/i386/NetworkManager/
>> http: //ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/x86_64/NetworkManager/
>>
>> SL50 and 51
>> NetworkManager-0.7.0-4.sl5_0.0.6.4.i386.rpm
>> NetworkManager-0.7.0-4.sl5_0.0.6.4.x86_64.rpm
>>
>> SL52
>> NetworkManager-0.7.0-4.sl5_2.0.6.4.i386.rpm
>> NetworkManager-0.7.0-4.sl5_2.0.6.4.x86_64.rpm
> 
> If those count as newer than:
> 
>    NetworkManager-0.7.0-4.el5_3.i386.rpm
>    NetworkManager-0.7.0-4.el5_3.x86_64.rpm
> 
> then you will probably also need to release a version for sl53 (with 
> 'sl5_3' as the dist tag) or anyone attempting to upgrade from sl52 to 53 
> won't get the expected (new) version of NetworkManager.  Or am I missing 
> some cunning trick?
> 
> I've recently been going round removing NetworkManager from quite a few 
> machines where it had been pulled in by accident... (oops)
> 
>   -- Jon

Hi Jon,
I already have it made, but I'm not putting it into the testing area 
because it would be the one people get instead of the others.  But thank 
you for noticing and pointing it out.
The one that will go out to SL 5.3 will be

NetworkManager-0.7.0-4.sl5_3.i386.rpm

Troy
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