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[Oliver Ruebenacker]

     Dear friends,

  Why would yum or rpm mess up dependencies if you downgrade? What is
the difference between upgrading and downgrading from a package
managing perspective?

     Take care
     Oliver

On 6/1/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Niels Weber wrote:
> > 2007/5/31, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at redhat.com>:
> >> Wietse Muizelaar wrote:
> >>
> >> > Thnx. Unfortunately, I updated this morning, and there were 117 (or
> >> > something like that) packages updated; but already with all kind of
> >> > fc8-suffixes. When I installed this rpm, is it possible in some more or
> >> > less easy way to revert those updates? Now I have a 'mixed' system,
> >> > which I would like to fix to a fedora7-system.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks in advance for your reply.
> >>
> >> Do a clean installation. Reverting will be a pain that's not worth the
> >> time.
> >
> > I don't think it is that hard. Just install the fedora-release, then
> > do a "rpm -qa | grep -i fc8" and replace all those packages listed
> > with fc7 ones from the repository.
>
> .. and deal with dependencies being messed up.
>
> Rahul
>
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Oliver Ruebenacker, Post-Doc Researcher
Theoretical Biological Physics and Soft Statistical Mechanics
Cell Biology at UConn Health Center and Physics at Harvard
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