How to downgrade a package to a specific minor revision

Oliver Fuerst Oliver.Fuerst at auctioning4u.co.uk
Thu Jul 20 10:14:29 UTC 2006


Hi,

> Smart Package Manager has the capability to downgrade a 
> package and it's dependent pacakges. All packages need to be 
> available on enabled repositories. Install smart-gui from 
> Extras, click on the version that you want, and smart will 
> figure out the package combination that meets your selection. 
> Although I haven't tried downgrading with Pirut I believe it 
> too has that capability.

I'll give it a try. Otherwise it's "rpm --oldpackage ..."

Thank you very much.

Best,
Oliver Fuerst


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