Downgrading OpenSceneGraph in rawhide?
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Aug 24 14:16:25 UTC 2007
Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to downgrade a package or replace a package with an older
> version in rawhide without having to bump the epochs?
>
>
> Background
>
> Short version:
>
> I plan to replace OpenSceneGraph-2.0 with OpenSceneGraph-1.x and to add
> a OpenSceneGraph2 package in rawhide (similar to what gtk did during the
> gtk-1 -> gtk-2 transition), due to other packages still carrying deps on
> OpenSceneGraph-1.x
>
Couldn't you introduce a package named OpenSceneGraph1-x.y? It would be
inconsistent with the packaging naming prevalent in the repository but
it can be a way to avoid disrupting the existing packages and
introducing epochs.
Rahul
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