From Rawhide to Moonshine

David Boles dgboles at gmail.com
Fri Jun 1 19:34:07 UTC 2007


Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
>     Dear friends,
> 
>  I installed yum-allowdowngrades, I am using the --allow-downgrade
> option and I am specifying the full name of the package. Yet, yum
> refuses to replace any fc8 package by its fc7 equivalent. If I say
> install, yum says nothing to do. If I say update/upgrade, yum says no
> update information. What can I do? Thanks!
> 
>  I was considering remove/install, but some of the packages are
> required by maybe about half of the others (such as zlib).
> 
>  On the other hand, if I wait, will all those fc8 packages be updated
> by fc7 packages?
> 
>  Oh, I just see I still have xsri for fc6. Is that something to be
> concerned about?
> 
>     Take care
>     Oliver


Oliver,  Does it work? Are you having any problems? If not why are you
trying to repair something that is not broken?  ;-)

I run Rawhide, the development branch, and I have packages from FC6, F7, and
F8 together and I have no problems.


> On 6/1/07, Niels Weber <nathelbiya at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2007/5/31, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at redhat.com>:
>> > Wietse Muizelaar wrote:
>> >
>> > > Thnx. Unfortunately, I updated this morning, and there were 117 (or
>> > > something like that) packages updated; but already with all kind of
>> > > fc8-suffixes. When I installed this rpm, is it possible in some
>> more or
>> > > less easy way to revert those updates? Now I have a 'mixed' system,
>> > > which I would like to fix to a fedora7-system.
>> > >
>> > > Thanks in advance for your reply.
>> >
>> > Do a clean installation. Reverting will be a pain that's not worth the
>> > time.
>>
>> I don't think it is that hard. Just install the fedora-release, then
>> do a "rpm -qa | grep -i fc8" and replace all those packages listed
>> with fc7 ones from the repository.
> 
>> Niels
>>
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  David

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