Re: Resolve dependencies while "yum downgrade" process
Paul Howarth <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:27:30 +0300 devel anaconda <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everybody. > > Please, enlighten me, what should I do to make my yum-3.2.23 resolve > dependencies when I do yum downgrade? > > I have program-0.0.2 that depends on lib-0.0.2 > I want to downgrade to program-0.0.1 that depends on lib-0.0.1 > > When I do "yum downgrade program-0.0.1", it breaks due to unresolved > dependencie :( But when I type "yum downgrade program-0.0.1 > lib-0.0.1" - everything is fine, I can downgrade it. Why? No, not > like that. WHY?!? yum doesn't make depsolve? :) Is there any chances > to make me happy? May be some unofficial patches? Not the answer you're looking for, but an approach often used for libraries is to package compat-lib-0.0.1, which can be installed at the same time as lib-0.0.2. A downgrade of program-0.0.2 to program-0.0.1 would then be able to pull in compat-lib-0.0.1 to satisfy the dependency. Paul.