seth vidal wrote: > Been thinking about allowdowngrade. > > How does that work for things like this: > > yum --allowdowngrade update \* > > Does that revert you back to GA of your distro? > > If we bit the bullet and put in a downgrade command or implemented it in > plugin what is the behavior for it? > > I'm not looking for bikeshedding, pony-desiring requests. I'm looking > for real thoughts on how downgrades should work. Maybe downgrade bans > wildcards?
I'm replying as a sysadmin who is frustrated that the yum-allowdowngrade plugin doesn't work. From my point of view the only thing I want to do with downgrade is install older versions of packages (i.e. yum install foo-1.0.1 when foo-2.0.1 is installed). That's it - we have an internal repo which has a bunch of different local packages with different versions and I want to be able to switch between them without resorting to using rpm directly. It would be nice if this simple use case was possible. I think anything more complex (downgrading your entire distro) isn't really useful in the real world. So yes, I think downgrade should ban wildcards. _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list Yum-devel@lists.baseurl.org http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
