On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 04:09:32PM +0100, Christophe de Dinechin wrote: > Is there any documented procedure to safely downgrade from rawhide to > the latest release? > > I tried > > # dnf update --releasever=32 fedora-release > # dnf distro-sync --allowerasing --skip-broken > > Does something like that have any chance of working? At first sight, it > seems to be somewhat successful.
I have downgraded at least a subset of packages from Rawhide to a released Fedora in the past, and it can work. However last week when I did this libvirt broke all networking when doing this (requiring a reboot and IIRC some manual config file changes to recover). Now this wasn't necessarily libvirt's fault because we only test and it's only guaranteed that things like RPM scriptlets will work in the forwards direction. While it's _nice_ that they should work in the reverse direction, it's not required and it's very rarely tested. So basically it may work, if it doesn't you get to keep all the pieces, and it has broken in the past. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
