Downgrade command ?

[Pascal Bleser]

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Just an idea...

Would it possible to implement a "downgrade" command, that would
downgrade specified (or all) packages to the latest known version ?

It does happen that people add experimental repositories (e.g. latest
GNOME or X.org version), find that it causes issues and want to
downgrade to the packages shipped with the stable distribution.

With such a "downgrade" command (or a flag to "upgrade"), it would be
made a lot easier, as smart has the information about what's the latest
version (in the enabled repositories) of all packages.

Hard to implement ?

Can smart be tricked to do that now ?
Maybe be setting the RPM database's priority to a lower value than the
channels ? (or the stable repository channel's priority higher than the
RPM DB ?)

cheers
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