>> And if you really need to downgrade the kernel or another package just >> do it with pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/<packagename>-<oldversion>. > > I know this is the No.1 hint but this solution is not very well from my view > because instead the hardidsk getting bigger and bigger it sounds unlogical to > keep a lot of files in the cache and only a few one could be important for > seldom cases. > > One of them which is important be the kernel. So if pacman would have the option > to install a certain version of a package than the user need only to know if > there is more than one version in db. So perhaps this coould be solved at > example for a search of all by a "pacman -Ss --allversions ^kernel". Last not > least repo-add and repo-remove must have the possibilty to do this too. > cp `ls -1 /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kernel26-2.6* | tail -n 1` ./ Is it really that hard?
