Updates-testing

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Wed Oct 14 18:37:05 UTC 2009


On 10/14/2009 10:06 AM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 11:30 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
>> On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Alex Hudson wrote:
>>
>>> On 14/10/09 16:47, Seth Vidal wrote:
>>>> yum downgrade pkgname
>>>>
>>>> it works fine for the simple-ish cases.
>>>
>>> If that works, then gravy. I can't admit to having tried it in the past -
>>> although, I'm not really a yum user, I use packagekit, and indeed pk whines at
>>> me to turn off the legacy software when I run yum ;) Ideally, for me, this
>>> would be something pk can trigger (and maybe give me a way of contributing to
>>> the testing karma at the same time - that would rock).
>>>
>>
>> Even with downgrade, that's a user action.  If the user happens to know
>> about it they'll be ok.  I'm more interested in what options a packager
>> has to fix problems like this.
>>
>> 	-Mike
>>
>
> In this specific case, issue a bumped build of thunderbird with the UI
> settings defaulted to what they were before the change.  New code, old
> UI.

Right.  The defaults have been tweaked in 
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/thunderbird-3.0-2.8.b4.fc11




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