yum question, reverting to old packages.

Rahul sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat Sep 2 21:26:34 UTC 2006


Richard Hally wrote:
> Rahul wrote:
>> Richard Hally wrote:
>>
>>> Excellent! RPM considered harmful. Of course our "helper" apps are 
>>> not helpful when you need help the most. </sarcasm>
>>>
>>
>> Being sarcastic is very unhelpful and wont motivate anyone to help 
>> you. Kindly avoid that. 
> Who died and made you 'list mom'? 

Self elected mostly.

Sarcasm is a valid rhetorical device.
> Please take care when you criticize other people's style. You're not 
> perfect by any stretch of the imagination. (and neither an I).
> 

It would be nice to avoid sarcasm if you want to developers to take your 
suggestions seriously.


>>
>> Well yeah. 
> Sarcasm perceived.

You seem to have misunderstood. I accepted what you said.


> 
> It would be nice to have RPM rollbacks used more reliably but
>> thats different from Yum's ability to do RPM downgrades. If RPM can 
>> get the ability to do downgrades reliably yum can also support it.
>>
>> Rahul
>>
> Let's see if we can get RPM rollbacks and downgrades working and out of 
> the "nice to have" category.
> 

Sure. Patches accepted.

Rahul




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