On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 01:14:35AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > >I just ran smart pkg mgr on my FC5 lappy, and any cups I click on claims > >it will downgrade 3 packages if I exec it. What the heck? Yumex doesn't > >seem to have that problem. Are you perhaps clicking on old packages? If you have foo-1.2.3 and foo-devel-1.2.3 installed and you click on foo-devel-1.0.0 it will try to downgrade at least two packages, since you asked smart to do so more or less explicitly. > Smart uses a different dependency resolving algorithm that offers to > downgrade packages automatically. RPM is not designed for downgrades One of the core features of rpm from the very beginning was to downgrades and uninstalls so the user is able to revert from a bad package. So rpm does indeed support downgrades by design. It does have a safety pin installed in that you need to use --oldpackage so novice users don't accidentially downgrade stuff while thinking they are upgrading it. The downgrading offer should be investigated. Since the repo is not counting on package managers downgrading stuff, but a depsolver still believes this is neccessary, either the depsolver made a bogus calculation, or there is an issue in the repo. Both are worthwhile to understand and fix, so the plea to the original poster to explicitely post the output of smart. > and Yum, Yumex, Pirut etc dont support this. Whether this is a > advantage or not is debatable. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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