On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 12:41 -0400, Robert Moskowitz
wrote:> This is all related to my struggles with Asterfax and libtiff.
>
> I rpm -U to libtiff 3.8.2 and I am still having troubles. So I decided
> to go back to libtiff 3.6.1 (oh and libtiff-devel that seems to be a
> prerec).
>
> So after a bit of playing that did not seem to do anything, I figured
> out to:
>
> rpm -U --oldprogram libtiff-3.6.1-8.i386.rpm libtiff-devel-3.6.1-8.i386.rpm
>
> and this seemed to work:
>
> rpm -q libtiff
> libtiff-3.6.1-8
>
>
> But now things seem to be even more 'broken' if possible.
>
> Did I do the backleveling the right way?
>
> How do I check?
>
>
What you did is correct ...
rpm -Uvh --oldprogram package_name1 package_name2
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you can see what files are owned by a package with:
rpm -ql package_name
and you can verify a package with:
rpm -V package_name
(-V only shows output if something is not exactly as it should be ...
see "man rpm" and look at the "VERIFY OPTIONS")
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