Downgrade command ?

[Jeff Johnson]

On Nov 26, 2006, at 4:29 PM, Pascal Bleser wrote:

>
> 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.
>

FWIW, rpm-4.4.3 and later includes a RPMTAG_PACKAGEORIGIN
that is intended for exactly the above.

There are python methods to get/set the package origin, and whatever
the values is when installing will be saved in the rpmdb.

73 de Jeff