[Mageia-dev] Proposal of a backporting process

[André Salaün]

Le Sun, 26 Jun 2011 02:08:52 -0700 (PDT)
Radu-Cristian FOTESCU <beranger5ca at yahoo.ca> a écrit:

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> >>  I a not sure that most people realize they can revert. Maybe a easier
> >>  interface to do that could be offered ( along maybe with a tool that
> >>  send feedback on why it did downgrade it ? ).
> > 
> > that's not a bad idea, what is the best way to revert? is that with --old-
> > package ?
> 
> Maybe I'm stupid, but rpmdrake does not have any option to downgrade a package. To my knowledge, the only GUI in this world that has such an option (in a menu) is Synaptic, but Synaptic itself ceases to be the default GUI package manager in *buntu 11.11.

No I don't think, smart and smart-gui can do that.
Furthermore, if you break drakrpm and/or urpmi (using unofficlal
sources or testing) it can run because based on python.
For me it is a good complement to urpmi (whith urpmisync  like in
Mandriva)... when it works (I had o lot of problems in Mandriva  
2010.1 2010.2 with urpmi synchronisation)

> And man urpmi does not assist the user into downgrading a package. Frankly, I don't know how to protect a package from being updated, the way I can do it with yum (or the way I can hold a package with dpkg, aptitude or dselect). Of course, I am not that familiar with Mageia (or Mandriva), or rather I treated Mageia (and Mandriva) as "distros where I should use the GUI tools or the default options of the CLI tools and not bother much" -- otherwise, why using mga/mdv and not something else?
> 
> R-C aka beranger


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