[NCLUG] Downgrade RPM?

Mike Loseke mike.loseke at gmail.com
Wed Jun 13 08:41:15 MDT 2007


On 6/12/07, Sean Reifschneider <jafo at tummy.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 11:36:30AM -0600, BJ Tiemessen wrote:
> >Don't forget you will have to force the old version.  "rpm -Uvh --force
>
> Never, ever, use --force.  If you have to use --force, something is
> probably wrong and you will probably --break it.  I'm convinced that a lot
> of the problems people have with RPMs and their systems getting wedged are
> because they used --force to install packages they really shouldn't have.
>
> As Stephen says in his reply, --oldpackage is what you want in this
> situation.  --force turns off too many other things, and will not warn you
> about other problems that may exist with the package install.  For
> example,
> if you did "-i" instead of "-U", the force will cause it to not warn you
> about the impending issues.
>
> Please, don't use --force, and in particular don't off-handedly recommend
> it's use.  It causes way more problems than it solves.



But it usually leads to a clean re-install, which can be a good thing. :)



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