Downgrade command ?

Jan Engelhardt jengelh at linux01.gwdg.de
Sun Nov 26 07:47:13 PST 2006


>Note that the current process for doing that with smart is e.g.
>smart install libgnome-2.12.0.1-26 ...
>
>You have to specify the full package name-version-release to have smart
>consider doing a downgrade.
>
>If one just says
>smart install libgnome
>it will fail, smart saying that libgnome-... is already installed.
>
>upgrade obviously doesn't work either, as smart will say that a newer
>version is already installed (makes sense ;)).
>
>So (IMHO) what we would need is a "downgrade" command, that would
>downgrade a package to the latest known version as of the repository
>metadata.

Suppose pack-3 is installed, and you have pack-1, pack-2 and pack-3 
available. Which one should DOWNGRADE install? pack-1 or pack-2?


	-`J'
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