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authorThierry Vignaud <tv@mageia.org>2013-02-09 21:25:12 +0000
committerThierry Vignaud <tv@mageia.org>2013-02-09 21:25:12 +0000
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add basic support for --downgrade (mga#6655)
needs new URPM
-rw-r--r--NEWS2
-rw-r--r--pod/8/urpmi.pod4
-rw-r--r--urpm/args.pm1
-rwxr-xr-xurpmi2
4 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 59e81a2a..72ad19b5 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+- add basic support for --downgrade (mga#6655)
+
Version 7.18 - 9 February 2013, by Thierry Vignaud
- keep a separate counter for erasures
diff --git a/pod/8/urpmi.pod b/pod/8/urpmi.pod
index c9fd27a4..ac2ac041 100644
--- a/pod/8/urpmi.pod
+++ b/pod/8/urpmi.pod
@@ -208,6 +208,10 @@ This is useful if you have C<no-suggests> in urpmi.cfg.
Update only the database, not the filesystem.
+=item B<--downgrade>
+
+Force installing the packages even though they are already installed.
+
=item B<--replacepkgs>
Force installing the packages even though they are already installed.
diff --git a/urpm/args.pm b/urpm/args.pm
index 41201558..86906669 100644
--- a/urpm/args.pm
+++ b/urpm/args.pm
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ my %options_spec = (
'no-suggests' => sub { $urpm->{options}{'no-suggests'} = 1 },
'allow-nodeps' => sub { $urpm->{options}{'allow-nodeps'} = 1 },
'allow-force' => sub { $urpm->{options}{'allow-force'} = 1 },
+ 'downgrade' => sub { $urpm->{options}{downgrade} = 1 },
'parallel=s' => \$::parallel,
'metalink!' => sub { $urpm->{options}{metalink} = $_[1] },
diff --git a/urpmi b/urpmi
index f862c396..3f76f6a2 100755
--- a/urpmi
+++ b/urpmi
@@ -94,6 +94,8 @@ sub usage () {
") . N(" --clean - remove rpm from cache before anything else.
") . N(" --noclean - don't clean rpms from cache.
") . N(" --justdb - update only the rpm db, not the filesystem.
+") . N(" --downgrade - dowgrade a package from the version currently installed
+ to the previously highest version
") . N(" --replacepkgs - force installing packages which are already installed.
") . N(" --force - force invocation even if some packages do not exist.
") . N(" --allow-nodeps - allow asking user to install packages without