Re: Proposing keeping multiple versions of the same package in the updates repo

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Dne 24. 03. 20 v 16:30 Adam Williamson napsal(a):
> On Tue, 2020-03-24 at 10:03 +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote:
>> +1
>>
>> I would love this for Rawhide. This would also allow `dnf downgrade` to
>> work, which would be very useful when things go south. In stable
>> releases, you could in theory downgrade from version in `updates`
>> repository to version from `fedora` repository`, but that is not
>> possible in Rawhide :/
> It's pretty easy to do this with the Koji CLI:
>
> koji download-build --arch=x86_64 --arch=noarch (NVR)
> dnf downgrade *.rpm


While this might sound useful, it is not that useful when your system is
borked and you want to get it up and running again.

IOW this is strawman to the original request and my reasoning for the +1.


Vít


> usually will do the trick (adjust for arch, obviously). For stable
> releases, all packages that were ever made stable updates are kept
> around, AIUI - they are exempt from garbage collection. For Rawhide I
> think things get garbage collected after a while, but they're usually
> there for several weeks first.
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