How to downgrade Fedora to previous release?

[Matej Cepl]

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:30:55 +0400, Peter Lemenkov scripst:

> Hello All!
> Since Fedora 9-Preview completely unuseable for me I decided to step
> back to F-8. Thus far I know abount the only solution - backing up /etc/
> and /home directories and reinstalling F-8 but maybe there are some ways
> to downgrade to previous relese and updates.

Certainly I hope that we should be able to fix your problems rather than 
force you to downgrade, I have a couple things which I would certainly do 
in such case.

1) package-cleanup --problems
2) package-cleanup --cleandupes
3) rpm -Va
4) LANG=C find /usr /etc -exec rpm -qf '{}' \; \
      |grep 'is not owned by any package\s*$'

(rinse, dry, repeat until there is nothing seriously wrong in any of these 
report -- don't bother about changed times, *.rpm{save,orig,new} and such 
things, but missing files are problem; the last test requires most time 
and most judgement to decide what's wrong, but to be 100% sure everything 
is all right, I found it necessary after one very broken upgrade to F9 
Beta).

Matěj
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