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seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Mon Jun 26 11:32:34 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 00:08 -0700, Panu Matilainen wrote:

> But this isn't about --force, it's about rpm -U --oldpackage. IIRC 
> Seth wasn't *that* opposed about possibility of allowing downgrading 
> to specific version which is what this case is about, it's just that 
> nobody has done any work to support downgrading.

Automated downgrading is scary if only b/c there's no way to be sure
that the scriptlets can be undone when you go from a higher version to a
lower version.

-sv





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