https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=208694 Summary: YaST does not allow package downgrading if patches were applied Product: SUSE Linux 10.1 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: kkaempf@novell.com ReportedBy: rguenther@novell.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com CC: sh@novell.com If you start with a 10.1 install and apply current online-updates you get a xorg patch. If you then install xorg7 from an external source (openSUSE) you can not downgrade to xorg 6.9 again without re-installing. This is because the applied patch imposes requirements on library versions, but those are not available for downgrading. So downgrading to the available 10.1 packages fails and there is no way ignoring the patch dependencies or uninstalling the patch. I believe this (interaction of patches with dependencies) is a design issue and is not easy to fix (other than by providing a "ignore this dependency" from the Yast sw management module and allowing to re-apply a patch). Still this is a quite severe issue, as requiring a re-install of the complete system in this case is not acceptable. [but unsupported external install, yadayada, so Critial priority only] Note this problem is in openSUSE 10.2, too, I believe. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.