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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Proposal of a backporting process</H1>
    <B>Radu-Cristian FOTESCU</B> 
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&gt;&gt;<i>  I a not sure that most people realize they can revert. Maybe a easier
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>  interface to do that could be offered ( along maybe with a tool that
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>  send feedback on why it did downgrade it ? ).
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</I>&gt;<i> that's not a bad idea, what is the best way to revert? is that with --old-
</I>&gt;<i> package ?
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Maybe I'm stupid, but rpmdrake does not have any option to downgrade a package. To my knowledge, the only GUI in this world that has such an option (in a menu) is Synaptic, but Synaptic itself ceases to be the default GUI package manager in *buntu 11.11.

And man urpmi does not assist the user into downgrading a package. Frankly, I don't know how to protect a package from being updated, the way I can do it with yum (or the way I can hold a package with dpkg, aptitude or dselect). Of course, I am not that familiar with Mageia (or Mandriva), or rather I treated Mageia (and Mandriva) as &quot;distros where I should use the GUI tools or the default options of the CLI tools and not bother much&quot; -- otherwise, why using mga/mdv and not something else?

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