[haiku-development] Re: downgrade a package
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 11:14:14 +0100
On 02/12/2014 07:35 PM, Jérôme Duval wrote:
libxml2-2.9.1 is part of the x86 repository but declared broken on HaikuPorts.
I have two questions on that:
1/ How to change back to libxml2-2.8.0 in the repository?
I suppose you mean the HaikuPorts package repository (as opposed to any
source repository). You perform exactly the same steps as when replacing
a package with a newer version.
2/ How to downgrade a package on an installation?
That's a good question. I think "pkgman update libxml2" would not
actually replace the newer version with the old one. Maybe explicitly
specifying the version (i.e. "libxml2-2.8.0") would. I haven't checked
that, nor how that would be done e.g. with zypper on openSUSE.
The recently introduced "pkgman full-sync" (equivalent to "zypper
dist-upgrade") would do that. It synchronizes the state of all installed
packages with that of the active repositories, including downgrading and
removing packages, if necessary. Individual packages cannot be specified.
I'm unaware of how HaikuDepot works and whether it would be possible to
downgrade a given package with it.
I believe, it should be possible to download the new package and
manually move it to /system/packages. The package daemon should point
out the conflict and offer as one solution to remove the old libxml2
package.
CU, Ingo
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