02-19-2010
Assuming you are talking about effectively up2dating your existing installation and not upgrading to 5x:
You "could" conceivably rollback or "downgrade" each package individually based on dependencies...
The catch (and a very nasty one here) is in order to perform a rollback you will need access to every old RPM and dependency RPM for the current installation of the system.
In short, it is "possible" but not easy or safe at all.
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order(4) File Formats order(4)
NAME
order - package installation order description file
DESCRIPTION
The package installation order file, .order, is an ASCII file specifying the order in which packages must be installed based on their pre-
requisite dependencies. Any package with prerequisite dependencies must be installed after any packages it lists as a prerequisite
dependency in its depend file.
A .order file is required for the OS product. The .order file must reside in the top-level directory containing the product.
The ordering is specified as a list of package identifiers, from the first package to be installed to the last, one package identifier per
line.
NOTES
The depend file supports incompatible and reverse dependencies. These dependency types are not recognized in the order file.
SEE ALSO
cdtoc(4), clustertoc(4), depend(4), packagetoc(4), pkginfo(4)
SunOS 5.10 24 Feb 1993 order(4)