On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, seth vidal wrote:
On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 23:13 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 13:32 -0400, Richard Hally wrote:
So maybe we should remove --oldpackage/--nodeps/--force from rpm. It
follows the gnome 'dumb it down' approach.
No, we just don't enable these functions in the "helper" apps. We don't
want to help you ruin your system, we'll let you do that on your own
with RPM.
People wishing for package downgrades are more often than not folks who
run rawhide and other experimental packages and just want an easy way to
back out a broken package. When a bad update has broken your system, what
difference does it make if downgrade is "potentially dangerous"?
This is the one point that I agree with. I looked at implementing the
simple flag to allow downgrades to happen provided the user jumped
through some hoops. I'm a bit crunched for time right now but if you
want to work on a patch for it I'd take a look.
I'm in middle of moving to a new apartment so hacking time is very limited
for a few weeks but this is something I've been intending to have a look
at for a while now. No promises but I'll try to give it a go when time
allows.
The criteria for it, however, is that it can NEVER happen automatically.
There will be no config option that sets it to happen it will only be
something one does on the command line (and maybe it should implicitly
disable -y)
I've never liked automatic downgrades either. Something along the lines of
--allow-downgrade together with explicitly requested package version, eg:
# yum install --allow-downgrade foo-libs-1.4-1
..and if that requires dependencies to be downgraded then you need to
manually speficy that as well, eg
# yum install --allow-downgrade foo-libs-1.4-1 foo-1.4-1
Sound hoop-jumpy enough to you? :)
- Panu -
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