kde4.4 in updates-testing

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Thu Feb 18 13:21:43 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 10:30 +0100, Thomas Janssen wrote:
> > "Backing out" means reversing an earlier advance, e.g. by using "yum
> > downgrade". Disabling updates-testing won't do that. All it does is
> > tread water until the standard repo catches up. Nothing wrong with
> that,
> > but it's not "backing out".
> 
> Ok, so backing out means to revert the update trough a yum downgrade.
> Where's the problem?

Well, for one thing downgrading doesn't always work, but aside from that
I was merely pointing out that the simple disabling of updates-testing
doesn't back you out of anything, which is what you actually said
(perhaps not what you meant to say). It's best to be clear about these
things or less experienced readers might get the wrong idea.

poc



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