smart downgrade rpm

[Mathieu Clabaut]

Ok... everything is repaired....
I managed to resinstall a complete fresh versions of 4.2.2 rpms with the
binary I haved in my backup...

Of course you're right Gustavo... I shouldn't have accepted the rpm
downgrade and I could just kick myself for that. I just have overlooked, as
I thought it was a minor downgraded (which is stupid I must admit)....

I'd paid more attention next time...

Anyway, thank you for your responses and help.

PS. I've looked at prerequists of installe dtrac package, but it only gives
:
 Requires:
    /usr/bin/python
    python >= 2.1
    python-clearsilver >= 0.9.3
    python-sqlite >= 0.4.3
    subversion >= 1.0.0
    webserver
I really don't know where the RPM dependencies comes from...


On 6/23/06, Gustavo Niemeyer <gustavo at niemeyer.net> wrote:
>
> > 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)...
>
> Wow.. I'll be really suprised if trac on Fedora depends on rpm 3.x.
> This is a very old version of rpm.
>
> > Of course after quitting smart, nothing worked concerning package
> > management. Neither rpm, rpmbuild, yum, smart.....
>
> How is it not working? What kind of message do you get when trying to
> use rpm itself?
>
> > 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...
>
> Yeah, that won't be trivial since you have to get the whole thing
> (libraries, etc).
>
> > I think that smart may prevent by default an rpm downgrading (and it
> > may be the same with apt, and others package management systems)....
>
> Smart shouldn't prevent you from doing something you've explicitly
> asked for. Trac depended on the old rpm for some reason. You've
> requested its installation, and approved the downgrade.
>
> > If any of you has a simple way to get the rpm bakc in a sain state,
> > I'm interested.
>
> We can try to help you for sure, but more details are needed.
>
> --
> Gustavo Niemeyer
> http://niemeyer.net
>
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