Re: rawhide report: 20060624 changes

[Panu Matilainen <pmatilai laiskiainen org>]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, seth vidal wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 00:08 -0700, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>
> > But this isn't about --force, it's about rpm -U --oldpackage. IIRC
> > Seth wasn't *that* opposed about possibility of allowing downgrading
> > to specific version which is what this case is about, it's just that
> > nobody has done any work to support downgrading.
>
> Automated downgrading is scary if only b/c there's no way to be sure
> that the scriptlets can be undone when you go from a higher version to a
> lower version.

I don't think anybody was talking about automated downgrading, but
means of being able to reasonably easily specify a certain package version 
to be installed (be in downgrade or upgrade)

	- Panu -