smart downgrade rpm

[Mathieu Clabaut]

 Hello....
 When asking to install "trac" package on a fedora 3, smart ask to
downgrade rpm.
 I've overlooked the problem it may caused, as the downgraded version
has not the same
database format than the previous one (rpm 4.4.2 versus rpm 3.x I think)...

 Of course after quitting smart, nothing worked concerning package
management. Neither rpm, rpmbuild, yum, smart.....

 I've tried to get back the binaries from previous backup and other
machines, but I still have some difficulties (rpm -ql work, but rpm
-qi not). I did not success in reinstalling rpm-python. So no yum, no
smart...

 I think that smart may prevent by default an rpm downgrading (and it
may be the same with apt, and others package management systems)....

 If any of you has a simple way to get the rpm bakc in a sain state,
I'm interested.

 Hope it may be of some interest to help smart improve...


-mathieu