On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 11:30 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Alex Hudson wrote: > > > On 14/10/09 16:47, Seth Vidal wrote: > > > yum downgrade pkgname > > > > > > it works fine for the simple-ish cases. > > > > If that works, then gravy. I can't admit to having tried it in the past - > > although, I'm not really a yum user, I use packagekit, and indeed pk whines at > > me to turn off the legacy software when I run yum ;) Ideally, for me, this > > would be something pk can trigger (and maybe give me a way of contributing to > > the testing karma at the same time - that would rock). > > > > Even with downgrade, that's a user action. If the user happens to know > about it they'll be ok. I'm more interested in what options a packager > has to fix problems like this. > > -Mike > In this specific case, issue a bumped build of thunderbird with the UI settings defaulted to what they were before the change. New code, old UI. In the general case this could also be done, or a package could be reverted to older code, but with an epoch to ensure package ordering. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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