On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 03:42 +0200, maze@cela.pl wrote:
Did you try rpm --replacepkgs --oldpackage?
No. Frankly, even though I read the man page again before starting the trek, I missed it entirely. However, even had I spotted it, it *might* have scared me off because ...
--oldpackage Allow an upgrade to replace a newer package with an older one.
This would have nailed me if I didn't get the right package. I did manage to pull one older version by mistake (by habitually pulling from base repository and not noticing that the package was a older one than what I had, from Extras repository). Fortunately, cpio "Did the Right Thing" (TM) and saved my butt because I had avoided the (u)nconditional flag. It forced me to investigate and correct without waiting for another "rpm --verify" to spot my error.
But in the future, I will give it a try.
Cheers,
MaZe.
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Thanks.