Bug 589789

Summary:

yum downgrade "succeeds" by removing packages that depend on the newer versions

Product:

[Fedora] Fedora

Reporter:

Jasper O'neal Hartline <Jasper.Hartline>

Component:

yum

Assignee:

Seth Vidal <skvidal>

Status:

CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

QA Contact:

Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>

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medium

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low

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CC:

ffesti, james.antill, maxamillion, mschmidt, pmatilai, tim.lauridsen

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yum-3.2.28-3.fc12

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2010-09-14 16:46:55 UTC

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Description Jasper O'neal Hartline 2010-05-06 21:24:01 UTC

Description of problem:
In the description. (For searchability)

Here is the output attached.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-3.2.27-3.fc12.noarch

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum downgrade gnome-panel
2. Fails
3. yum downgrade gnome-panel-libs succeeds
  
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Comment 1 James Antill 2010-05-06 22:04:38 UTC

What does it say? Is it failing on a dependency problem? It is known that "downgrade" doesn't resolve deps. as well as upgrade. You might want to try "yum history undo" if you are trying to do a downgrade to reverse some problem (although at this point in F-12 it might be to a version of gnome-panel that no longer exists).

Comment 2 Jasper O'neal Hartline 2010-05-06 22:56:49 UTC

I will attach the output, I attached it last time it doesn't seem to have attached it properly.

Comment 3 Jasper O'neal Hartline 2010-05-06 22:58:00 UTC

Created attachment 412184 [details]
Yum output

Yum output for not being able to downgrade to a version of gnome-panel that does exist, but yum downgrade gnome-panel-libs does actually work. Should work for both I would assume.

Comment 4 James Antill 2010-05-07 04:05:29 UTC

 Yeh, as I said, it's the fact the depsolver doesn't understand what is happening well enough. However I thought it'd fail, not do this:

--> Running transaction check
---> Package gnome-panel-libs.i686 0:2.28.0-13.fc12 set to be updated
---> Package gnome-panel-libs.i686 0:2.28.0-16.fc12 set to be erased
--> Processing Dependency: gnome-panel-libs = 2.28.0-16.fc12 for package: gnome-panel-2.28.0-16.fc12.i686
--> Running transaction check
---> Package gnome-panel.i686 0:2.28.0-16.fc12 set to be erased

...which we should fix.

Comment 5 Michal Schmidt 2010-05-13 13:43:10 UTC

bug 549404 says:
> it would be nice if yum tried harder to do a consistent downgrade
> by downgrading the related packages rather than by starting to erase
> things, which can cascade into removing most of one's system.

Duplicate?

Comment 6 James Antill 2010-09-14 16:46:55 UTC

Not really a dup as this one is fixed ... we won't do cascade removals now, but we can still install other arch packages.