Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal: Updating released versions (long post)

[Frank Griffin]

Renaud MICHEL wrote:
> If you still have the old package (which could have been reconstructed with 
> the --repackage option of urpmi), rpm can upgrade to an older version using 
> the --oldpackage option. So, if the dependencies are sill met with the old 
> package you won't have the uninstall problem.
>
> I don't think urpmi support that, but if rpm can do it, it should not be to 
> hard to add it to urpmi.
>   
Exactly.