On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 11:30 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Alex Hudson wrote:
> On 14/10/09 16:47, Seth Vidal wrote:
> > yum downgrade pkgname
> >
> > it works fine for the simple-ish cases.
>
> If that works, then gravy. I can't admit to having tried it in the past -
> although, I'm not really a yum user, I use packagekit, and indeed pk whines at
> me to turn off the legacy software when I run yum ;) Ideally, for me, this
> would be something pk can trigger (and maybe give me a way of contributing to
> the testing karma at the same time - that would rock).
>
Even with downgrade, that's a user action. If the user happens to know
about it they'll be ok. I'm more interested in what options a packager
has to fix problems like this.
-Mike
In this specific case, issue a bumped build of thunderbird with the UI
settings defaulted to what they were before the change. New code, old
UI. In the general case this could also be done, or a package could be
reverted to older code, but with an epoch to ensure package ordering.
--
Jesse Keating
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