How to downgrade version of a program?

[Tim Lauridsen]

lonely wolf wrote:
> Dawid Gajownik wrote:
>
>> Dnia 02/05/2006 11:38 AM, Użytkownik Ville Skyttä napisał:
>>
>>> Yep, that's too bad, and looks like rpm won't be fixed:
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/168563
>>
>>
>> What a pity :(
>>
>>>>  Is Epoch bump the only solution?
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm afraid it is.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the answer!
>>
> How about one of the followings brute force methods:
> a) rpm -U --oldpackage sqlite-2.0
> b) rpm -e --nodeps sqlite 2.1  && yum install sqlite 2.0
>
>
b) is a very bad thing, i tried it, in a moment of insanity. :-(
It break rpm and yum, then it is very hard to update something.

Tim