[Mageia-dev] Proposal: Updating released versions (long post)

Fri Oct 8 22:17:04 CEST 2010

On vendredi 08 octobre 2010 at 20:01, Frank Griffin wrote :
+> The problem is that removing the new package, if it provides something
+> that lots of things require, will want to uninstall a large number of
+> packages uselessly, because it doesn't know that you're about to turn
+> around and install something else that provides it.  All I'm suggesting
+> is that
+>    (a) we make the older RPMs available somewhere
+>    (b) we automate the process to save three manual steps, and
+>    (c) we wrap them in an atomic transaction (or what looks like one to
+> the user) to solve the problem above
+
+If you still have the old package (which could have been reconstructed with 
+the --repackage option of urpmi), rpm can upgrade to an older version using 
+the --oldpackage option. So, if the dependencies are sill met with the old 
+package you won't have the uninstall problem.
+
+I don't think urpmi support that, but if rpm can do it, it should not be to 
+hard to add it to urpmi.
+
+-- 
+Renaud Michel
+