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
> 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
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