Re: [Yum-devel] pain and suffering and allowdowngrade

2008-11-05 Thread Skahan, Vince
I certainly see the difference between backing out one rpm vs. a while distro upgrade. Without seeing the requests "people" are asking you for which you're trying to respond to, I can't speculate whether they want to back out a full distro or just a honked upgrade of a few things, or both. I'd s

Re: [Yum-devel] pain and suffering and allowdowngrade

2008-11-05 Thread Seth Vidal
> Confused. > > Historically there are feature requests for relatively easy things that > have been denied due to fear of (1) below. Most notable example for me > is the multiple requests for new yum --force and --nodeps switches ala > rpm which come up frequently. > > Answer for that one is always

[Yum-devel] obsoletion weirdness

2008-11-05 Thread Tim Lauridsen
Look like some thing weird i happening when 2 packages obsoletes the same package. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468785 The starting transaction look like this, before skip-broken, starts the magic. TSINFO: Current Transaction : 14 member(s) update : rpm-4.6.0-0.rc1.6.i386