Centos Downgrade from 7.5 to 7.4 giving conflicts error
by vikrant9305 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#52YKQ)
Hello,
- I've downgraded Centos-7.7 to 7.6 and then 7.6 to 7.5 using "yum downgrade redhat-release" command by modifying "/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Vault.repo" remo for respective version to downgrade.
Now downgrading from Centos-7.5 to 7.4, it is giving below conflicts error:
[vikrant@vikrant]# yum downgrade redhat-release
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C7.4.1708-base
C7.4.1708-centosplus
C7.4.1708-extras
C7.4.1708-fasttrack
C7.4.1708-updates
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Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package centos-release.x86_64 0:7-4.1708.el7.centos will be a downgrade
---> Package centos-release.x86_64 0:7-5.1804.el7.centos will be erased
--> Processing Conflict: initscripts-9.49.47-1.el7.x86_64 conflicts redhat-release < 7.5-0.11
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: initscripts conflicts with centos-release-7-4.1708.el7.centos.x86_64
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
- Not able to remove initscripts as many application depends on it


- I've downgraded Centos-7.7 to 7.6 and then 7.6 to 7.5 using "yum downgrade redhat-release" command by modifying "/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Vault.repo" remo for respective version to downgrade.
Now downgrading from Centos-7.5 to 7.4, it is giving below conflicts error:
[vikrant@vikrant]# yum downgrade redhat-release
-------------------------
C7.4.1708-base
C7.4.1708-centosplus
C7.4.1708-extras
C7.4.1708-fasttrack
C7.4.1708-updates
-------------------------
-------------------------
-------------------------
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package centos-release.x86_64 0:7-4.1708.el7.centos will be a downgrade
---> Package centos-release.x86_64 0:7-5.1804.el7.centos will be erased
--> Processing Conflict: initscripts-9.49.47-1.el7.x86_64 conflicts redhat-release < 7.5-0.11
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: initscripts conflicts with centos-release-7-4.1708.el7.centos.x86_64
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
- Not able to remove initscripts as many application depends on it