HOWTO: Properly downgrade a package (was: Re: rawhide report: 20060624 changes)

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 22:49 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> 1. yum install synaptic
> 2. synaptic
> 3. select the package from the list
> 4. Package / Force version
> 5. pick the version from the list
> 6. OK
> 7. Apply
> 8. OK
> That's it. :-) No --force --nodeps needed.
> 
> With RPM itself, use --oldpackage rather than --force --nodeps.
> 

what, exactly, do you think synaptic does when you do 'force version'?

-sv