[Yum] support downgrading off packages

[Michael Stenner]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 03:16:07AM +0100, Kristof Vansant wrote:
> Is there a way to make to make yum know that it has to downgrade
> packages when it upgrades.
> 
> Sometimes in rawhide packages get downgraded but yum does not detect
> this.
> 
> A good example is that the people running fedora test 1 have evolution
> 1.5.3 installed but should downgrade to 1.4.7 because evolution 2.0
> won't make it in fc2. But if you upgrade to rawhide yum won't downgrade
> it. You'll have to do it manual.

At the moment, this is just considered one of the things you accept
when you run rawhide.  I agree that it would be nice, but it's almost
never an issue except when people decide to do fairly crazy things
(like run rawhide).  Therefore, I think it's not a high priority.

						-Michael

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