yum question, reverting to old packages.

[Horst H. von Brand]

Richard Hally <rhally at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 13:32 -0400, Richard Hally wrote:
> >> So maybe we should remove --oldpackage/--nodeps/--force from
> >> rpm. It follows the gnome 'dumb it down' approach.
> > No, we just don't enable these functions in the "helper" apps.  We
> > don't
> > want to help you ruin your system, we'll let you do that on your own
> > with RPM.
> >
> Excellent! RPM considered harmful. Of course our "helper" apps are not
> helpful when you need help the most. </sarcasm>
> 
> Sorry Jesse, perhaps in trying to improve the design of yum or rpm we
> need to think in terms of reversibility so that updates are not
> 'forward only'. When considering improvements we need to think about
> robustness and recoverability.

Patches are more than wellcome.

Note that this means making sure that /all/ packages abide by the rules and
are set up for downgrading. Just too bad that that is exactly what is least
tested...
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