Downgrade command ?

[Pascal Bleser]

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Andreas Hanke wrote:
> Pascal Bleser schrieb:
>> (doesn't happen from my
>> experience with Apache or KDE, but does happen with Xorg and GNOME, at
>> least atm)
> 
> Yes, it does happen with Xorg and the particular problem about Xorg is
> that downgrading doesn't help because it's impossible to downgrade from
> Xorg 7.2 to Xorg 6.9.

It's possible, I did it myself.
Of course, Xorg is pretty complex case to handle, indeed.

Nevertheless, also for other cases (e.g. GNOME), I do think such a
downgrade command could be useful.

> In Xorg 6.9, /usr/lib/X11 was a symlink to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11. In Xorg
> 7.2, it is a real directory.
...
> My conclusion is that the proposal is certainly interesting, but for the
> specific problem that especially SUSE users tend to trash their systems
> not a solution. It's just fixing the symptoms.

Well, yeah, Xorg is hard to downgrade (but not impossible).
Point is about a "downgrade" command in smart, not this particular case ;)

In terms of priorities, I'd say the "--from" or "--only-from" switch for
upgrade is a lot more important though, as it's something everyone would
use every day.

> Some day people really have to learn to stay away from dangerous stuff
> if they have no clue, and some day they will have to learn that some of
> the buildservice repos are "Build & Go" repos (in the sense that the
> packages are built and immediately uploaded, but never ever tested even
> by the person who built them).

Sure. But the topic is smart, not the buildservice repos ;)
(thanks for the interesting information nevertheless)

cheers
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