On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 08:56 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote: > On 21 February 2014 08:50, Alberto Ruiz <aruiz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In Ubuntu there is a "purge-ppa" command that removes all the packages > > that came from that PPA and installed its "official" alternatives even > > if they were older. > > Yes, you can certainly do the same using the yumdb; the issue is > really if the newer software has done things like updating database > tables to a new schema or moving the location of config files. It > might be surprising to upgrade epiphany to 3.12, downgrade to 3.10 and > not have access to your web history or favourites any more. Sure, but at the end of the day, I would expect that someone dealing with COPR (or PPAs for that matter) know up to some extend what they're doing. Maybe we should add a warning if we provide such a tool saying "we cannot guarantee that user data will still work properly". > Richard -- Greetings, Alberto Ruiz Engineering Manager - Desktop Applications Team Red Hat, Inc. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
