[fedora-list] - yum-allowdowngrade doesn't work

Davidson Rodrigues Paulo davidsonpaulo at gmail.com
Fri May 4 16:08:15 UTC 2007


2007/5/4, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com>:
> No comment on your yum related issue. But here please use --oldpackage
> instead of --force. As why, look up in "man rpm" that --force is the
> same as using --replacepkgs, --replacefiles, and --oldpackage", and
> you do not want the --replacefiles option, because it can also replace
> files from _other_ packages and thereby break installations.

Hmmm. Thanks for the tip. :-)

Davidson Paulo




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