bad news

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:04:44 +0800, 黄剑 wrote:

> hi all,
> 
>      help me, please.... i am confused by this for days. Thing is this, i am
> a non-devel user of fedora 11,
> 
> one day i updated my system to rawhide, and now my fedora-release rpm is
> 11.90 but other application
> 
>  rpms have not been updated yet. I tried everything to *downgrade the
> fedora-release rpm*, but system tells
> 
> me this conflicts with files, messages like this, *package
> fedora-release-11.90-2.noarch (which is newer than
> 
> fedora-release-11-1.noarch) is already installed  file /etc/fedora-release
> from install of fedora-release-11-1.noarch
> 
> conflicts with file from package fedora-release-11.90-2.noarch*
> 
>     So tell me how i can *dwongrade* my fedora to 11.1, thanks a lot!!

One way would be to use

  rpm --upgrade --oldpackage fedora-release-11-1.noarch.rpm

provided that you've downloaded that old fedora-release package.