From f23e0bbff40b3922f7612be4f12200d657f1d629 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thierry Vignaud <tv@mageia.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 05:51:53 +0000
Subject: add basic support for --downgrade (mga#6655)

needs new URPM

(backported from trunk)
---
 NEWS            | 2 ++
 pod/urpmi.8.pod | 4 ++++
 urpm/args.pm    | 1 +
 urpmi           | 2 ++
 4 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 373f6b9d..414a6b32 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 - gurpmi:
   o add scrollbar for long one liner messages (mga#5118)
   o wrap big messages (mga#5118)
+- urpmi:
+  o add basic support for --downgrade (mga#6655)
 - urpmq: minor documentation fix (mga#7166)
 
 Version 6.48.3 - 24 August 2012
diff --git a/pod/urpmi.8.pod b/pod/urpmi.8.pod
index d1776c7d..e52591e5 100644
--- a/pod/urpmi.8.pod
+++ b/pod/urpmi.8.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 c66db9de..742a4342 100644
--- a/urpm/args.pm
+++ b/urpm/args.pm
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ 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 e7a5ef89..0650a46d 100755
--- a/urpmi
+++ b/urpmi
@@ -98,6 +98,8 @@ 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
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