forcing package downgrades

[David Asher]

ahh, now i get it.  thanks, it worked great after setting the rpm-db 
channel to priority -1000 also.

David.

Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
>> I just noticed that the smart info for the nrpms package showed priority 
>> 0...  Do I have something cached that needs to be removed so the the 
>> -1000 priority is seen?
>>     
>
> No, you don't. You have to reduce the priority of the channel providing
> the *installed* packages. The default priority for a package is the
> highest priority of all the channels it is available. That package is
> currently in two channels: your rpm database (priority = 0, it seems),
> and nrpms (priority = -1000).
>
> Set the priority of your installed database (type = rpm-sys) to -1000
> and you'll get the behavior you want.
>
>