RFC: changing versioning of fedora-release in rawhide

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Tue Nov 20 19:47:45 UTC 2007


On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:31:53 -0500
Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:

> Josh Boyer (jwboyer at gmail.com) said: 
> > yum upgrade
> > 
> > 'oops, got the broken gdm'
> > 
> > download the RPM for the older version
> > 
> > rpm -Uvh --oldpackage <oldversion>
> > 
> > ... fixed!
> 
> That requires going to another repo/web page/irc client/source of information
> to figure out and download whatever that version is.

You can use koji's downloadbuild (or whatever it's called) without too
much trouble.  This is rawhide after all.  Not for the faint of heart.

josh




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