On 2002-08-26 at 10:53 -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > It would be good if apt had a 'normalize' command, similar > > to 'upgrade', but that would downgrade packages > > automatically also. For example, suppose someone installed > > a stable system, then > > It is inherently dangerous to downgrade package, we never > test that, and don't really design for it in all cases. I am > not going to provide a command that does that automatically.
OK, fair point. Would it be possible to provide a apt-get --permit-downgrade upgrade or similar, with --permit-downgrade having a big bold warning when used? Alternatively, if you think this is still too dangerous, could I at least propose that dpkg provides more of a warning when downgrading packages? If I manually dpkg -i foobar_1.3.deb when foobar 1.4 is installed, I don't get much warning that I'm doing something that's not designed for (I know this would be a dpkg bug, if you could reassign it would be appreciated). Regards, Andrew. -- Andrew Ferrier mobile: +44 (0) 7968 147953 web: http://www.new-destiny.co.uk/andrew/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] email-to-SMS: see website
