Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > Dear friends, > > I installed yum-allowdowngrades, I am using the --allow-downgrade > option and I am specifying the full name of the package. Yet, yum > refuses to replace any fc8 package by its fc7 equivalent. If I say > install, yum says nothing to do. If I say update/upgrade, yum says no > update information. What can I do? Thanks! > > I was considering remove/install, but some of the packages are > required by maybe about half of the others (such as zlib). > > On the other hand, if I wait, will all those fc8 packages be updated > by fc7 packages? > > Oh, I just see I still have xsri for fc6. Is that something to be > concerned about? > > Take care > Oliver Oliver, Does it work? Are you having any problems? If not why are you trying to repair something that is not broken? ;-) I run Rawhide, the development branch, and I have packages from FC6, F7, and F8 together and I have no problems. > On 6/1/07, Niels Weber <nathelbiya@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 2007/5/31, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxx>: >> > Wietse Muizelaar wrote: >> > >> > > Thnx. Unfortunately, I updated this morning, and there were 117 (or >> > > something like that) packages updated; but already with all kind of >> > > fc8-suffixes. When I installed this rpm, is it possible in some >> more or >> > > less easy way to revert those updates? Now I have a 'mixed' system, >> > > which I would like to fix to a fedora7-system. >> > > >> > > Thanks in advance for your reply. >> > >> > Do a clean installation. Reverting will be a pain that's not worth the >> > time. >> >> I don't think it is that hard. Just install the fedora-release, then >> do a "rpm -qa | grep -i fc8" and replace all those packages listed >> with fc7 ones from the repository. > >> Niels >> >> -- >> fedora-test-list mailing list >> fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx >> To unsubscribe: >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list -- David
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