RFC - Downgrade BlueZ to v4.101 in Fedora 20

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 01/24/2014 03:41 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-01-23 at 21:35 -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>> David Sommerseth wrote:
>>>> So, I wonder if it can be considered to enable a "downgrade path" for
>>>> bluez and depending packages, as described in the "Contingency Plan":
>>>> <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Bluez5>
>>>
>>> Officially downgrading BlueZ from 5 to 4 in a shipped release is totally
>>> impractical. It just cannot be done realistically. (Contingency plans are
>>> only intended to be enacted BEFORE the release.)
>>
>> Right. But is it possible to ship a bluez4 package and rebuild the
>> dependencies against that after the release?
>
> How does that differ, in practice?
>
Think about compat packages and parallel installation.

Ralf