Downgrading to FC4

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Wed Jun 22 17:56:22 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 19:50 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
> Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 19:26 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > 
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I'm currently running rawhide and I noticed the landing of gtk2-2.7.0 
> >>and other rather unstable stuff in rawhide, so this seems like a good 
> >>moment to downgrade to FC-4 + updates, to switch back to rawhide when it 
> >>starts to stabilise again.
> >>
> >>Are there any handy ways (yum?) to downgrade to FC4 from rawhide?
> > 
> > 
> > Nope. But there are convoluted, ugly ways if you want to give one a try.
> >
> Such as?

Smartpm and apt can downgrade packages, and so can plain rpm using
--oldpackage... but that doesn't mean the downgraded packages will
actually *work*. 

	- Panu -




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