[OpenIndiana-discuss] Can I downgrade?

[Stephan Althaus]

On 3/16/23 16:58, stes at PANDORA.BE wrote:
> Something that worked for me was specifying a specific version.
>
> https://www.illumos.org/issues/14648
>
> pkg install pkg://hipster-encumbered/media/vlc@2.2.8-2018.0.0.2
>
> So although I am not sure about your question in general ("can I downgrade in IPS ?"),
> I think the answer is "yes a downgrade can be done in IPS, BUT it depends".
>
> First of all you can reboot in an old BE (boot environment) if you have kept an old BE (beadm).
>
> An IPS downgrade also depends on the contents of the repositories, dependencies of the packages etc.
> Also sometimes you have constraints like "locks" which I have documented for Squeak
> http://docs.openindiana.org/handbook/community/squeak/index.html
>
>   pkg change-facet facet.version-lock.*
>
> which is perhaps not applicable to VLC but it is to Squeak or some other IPS packages.
>
> So in the end the question "is it possible to downgrade in IPS" has no easy answer, I think.
>
> Basically I think the situation for media/vlc is not so bad, because 2.2.8 is still in the repo,
> and the latest versions are in the repo as well.
>
> Also the package   :  ffmpeg  can be used as an alternative to VLC.
>
>
> Regards,
> David Stes
>
> ----- Op 13 mar 2023 om 21:06 schreef Matthew Yapit irixuzer at gmx.com:
>
>> As of recently, the following doesn't work as intended:
>> Trash doesn't show trashed items, one must delete files from
>> ~/.local/share/Trash/files.
>> mate-system-monitor cores on startup.
>> VLC 3.0.18 doesn't playback some videos correctly, some have out of sync
>> sound, some have strangulated sound.
>>
>> With VLC, these defects are also found in Android VLC 3.5.4,  I was able
>> to downgrade VLC in android and get a working video player.
>>
>> I am aware of 'pkg update's ability to downgrade.  Does anyone have a
>> recipe for down grading these programs?  At least with VLC?
>>
>> --Matthew
>>
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Hello!

If you want that one package is left not-updated by "pkg update",
you could freeze the current installed version with "pkg freeze ..."

See man page..

Regards,

Stephan