Updates-testing

[Alex Hudson]

On 14/10/09 16:47, Seth Vidal wrote:
> yum downgrade pkgname
>
> it works fine for the simple-ish cases.

If that works, then gravy. I can't admit to having tried it in the past 
- although, I'm not really a yum user, I use packagekit, and indeed pk 
whines at me to turn off the legacy software when I run yum ;) Ideally, 
for me, this would be something pk can trigger (and maybe give me a way 
of contributing to the testing karma at the same time - that would rock).

Personally, though, I would think that if that is a feature we're 
advertising then it should be policy that either a. package maintainers 
strive to ensure their packages are mainly downgradable (certainly 
within a stable release) or b. the packages are marked as "don't 
downgrade me" and yum/whatever issues the appropriate expletive when you 
try to do that.

I would say again that any package update which cannot be downgraded 
would be one I would think hard about releasing into a stable Fedora.

Cheers

Alex.