On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 15:44 +0200, Leszek Matok wrote: > Dnia 25-06-2006, nie o godzinie 18:53 +0530, Rahul Sundaram napisał(a): > > rpm is a low level tool > > Its generally a good design not to expose all of > > the functionality in higher level tools > True, but yum is a dep-resolver and rpm-downloader. I expect it to allow > me to specify version of a package I want to have (either upgrade to > newer, but not newest, or downgrade to older), then check if it can > satisfy all the dependencies with that version. I don't want it to have > --nodeps nor real --force, only something like rpm --oldpackage and rpm > -F package-version.rpm (now it's equivalent to say rpm -F package-*.rpm > and selects the newest). > > If the dependencies can be satisfied and I want to test some package > version (because I want to see which version introduced a bug I'm > reporting on bugzilla, helping you fix it), there's no reason not to let > me do it. It's far from rpm -e --nodeps glibc, you know :) > > Telling users on the list to use rpm --force --nodeps --whatever instead > of yum install package-older-version is teaching them bad things and is > more harmful. Have you actually requested this functionality anywhere? We are talking about two different things here. For this particular problem, simply removing the older version of nfs-utils helps resolve it. It doesnt require any rpm command command at all, not to mention, no use of arguments like --nodeps and --force and that isnt being advocated by any developers. > > Oh, and a real high level tool is a gui to yum, which doesn't have to be > able to downgrade. I am sure some users are going to want it nevertheless. > At least if I'm using yum (middle level ;)) to > downgrade something I'm more confident it won't break anything (or tell > me if downgrading is not possible). > > Lam Rahul -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
