Downgrade command ?

[Pascal Bleser]

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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Nov 26 2006 12:47, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
>> Sounds good to me.  Perhaps a flag could be added to each channel,
>> allowing the channel type to be marked (for example) as 'experimental'
>> or as 'standard'.
> 
> Speaking of 'experimental', here's my "don't-upgrade" request again:
> 
> If a channel is marked experimental, no packages are 
> automatically selected for upgrade on `smart upgrade`, except for 
> packages that are in rpm-sys.

That's yet another behavior.
It would mean tracking the origin of a package (the origin being the
channel) and only upgrading a package from channel A if it was
explicitly installed from channel A.

OTOH, the problem is rather that package managers (including smart)
don't track that information as it is not in the RPM database (which
makes it problematic to track in the first place, as it is specific to
the package manager). And they don't have any differentiation between
packages coming from the distribution itself and 3rd party repositories.

Point is, most people are working with exactly that situation every day,
and have to make the decisions themselves.

That goes far beyond my original requests about "downgrade" and "upgrade
- --from" though ;)

cheers
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