On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 08:56 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
On 21 February 2014 08:50, Alberto Ruiz <aruiz(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> In Ubuntu there is a "purge-ppa" command that removes all the packages
> that came from that PPA and installed its "official" alternatives even
> if they were older.
Yes, you can certainly do the same using the yumdb; the issue is
really if the newer software has done things like updating database
tables to a new schema or moving the location of config files. It
might be surprising to upgrade epiphany to 3.12, downgrade to 3.10 and
not have access to your web history or favourites any more.
Sure, but at the end of the day, I would expect that someone dealing
with COPR (or PPAs for that matter) know up to some extend what they're
doing. Maybe we should add a warning if we provide such a tool saying
"we cannot guarantee that user data will still work properly".
Richard
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Greetings,
Alberto Ruiz
Engineering Manager - Desktop Applications Team
Red Hat, Inc.