Topic: Query regarding yum update and remi repository
Hi,
This is a fairly basic question about how the remi repository interacts with others:
The latest version of php available in the official centos repositories is 5.x. I have installed the remi repository, but leave it disabled by default.
By then explicitly enabling it at the command line, using yum I have successfully upgraded the default php from 5.5 to 7
If I later run a "yum update", this time without explicitly enabling the remi repository, yum does not attempt to downgrade the installed php version, even though the latest version available in the official repositories (5.x) does not match the installed version (5.7)
This is good - but I was wondering why...? Is it that yum does not merely look for a difference between repository and installed versions, but rather will only ever propose an upgrade, not a downgrade?