Bug 506702 - zypper complains about not finding packages that could be downgraded via YaST.
Summary: zypper complains about not finding packages that could be downgraded via YaST.
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 483426
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE 11.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: libzypp (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: All openSUSE 11.1
: P4 - Low : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: Jan Kupec
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Reported: 2009-05-23 09:54 UTC by Elmar Stellnberger
Modified: 2009-05-25 09:50 UTC (History)
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zypper log (511.00 KB, application/x-bzip2)
2009-05-23 10:08 UTC, Elmar Stellnberger 		Details
y2log (55.79 KB, application/x-bzip2)
2009-05-23 10:09 UTC, Elmar Stellnberger 		Details
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Description Elmar Stellnberger 2009-05-23 09:54:24 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5; Linux) KHTML/3.5.10 (like Gecko) SUSE

zypper in -f refuses to downgrade packages (Perhaps this should better/as well be handled by an own downgrade option: see Enh 506701).

> zypper in -f libdrm
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Package libdrm-2.4.11-1.1.x86_64 not found in repositories, cannot reinstall.
Resolving package dependencies...
Nothing to do.
... downgrading via Yast ...
> rpm -q libdrm
libdrm-2.4.1-1.13


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Elmar Stellnberger 2009-05-23 10:08:34 UTC 
Created attachment 294050 [details]
zypper log
Comment 2 Elmar Stellnberger 2009-05-23 10:09:36 UTC 
Created attachment 294052 [details]
y2log
Comment 3 Jan Kupec 2009-05-25 08:13:57 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> zypper in -f refuses to downgrade packages

Because it's not supposed to. At least not now, but we'll improve the --force option in the future.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 483426 ***
Comment 4 Jan Kupec 2009-05-25 08:19:50 UTC 
JFYI: currently you can downgrade the packages by specifying their version, like this:

$ zypper in libdrm-2.4.1-1.13

HTH
Comment 5 Elmar Stellnberger 2009-05-25 09:49:21 UTC 
  If 'zypper in libdrm-2.4.1-1.13' works anyway it is perhaps better to leave 'zypper in --force' as is and provide an own downgrade command as proposed in Enh 506701.
Comment 6 Elmar Stellnberger 2009-05-25 09:50:01 UTC 
in Bug 506701.