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[Jeff Johnson]

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On Feb 22, 2006, at 1:24 PM, Axel Thimm wrote:

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> A downgrade is in 99% a shortcut of uninstalling a package and
> reinstalling another. So you usually get downgrades at no cost at all.
>

Minor technical correction (which I'm sure you know ;-):

Uninstalling glibc in order to reinstall glibc just doesn't work  
reliably.

Reinstalling the old glibc and then uninstalling whatever files that  
have not
been replaced, gives a "downgrade" a shot at reliability.

73 de Jeff

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