On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, seth vidal wrote:
On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 00:08 -0700, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> But this isn't about --force, it's about rpm -U --oldpackage. IIRC
> Seth wasn't *that* opposed about possibility of allowing downgrading
> to specific version which is what this case is about, it's just that
> nobody has done any work to support downgrading.
Automated downgrading is scary if only b/c there's no way to be sure
that the scriptlets can be undone when you go from a higher version to a
lower version.
I don't think anybody was talking about automated downgrading, but
means of being able to reasonably easily specify a certain package version
to be installed (be in downgrade or upgrade)
- Panu -