# Mark artifact version as inconsistent

**URL:** https://hub.mender.io/t/mark-artifact-version-as-inconsistent/6126
**Category:** General Discussions
**Tags:** mender-client
**Created:** [August 18, 2023, 10:22pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mark-artifact-version-as-inconsistent/6126 "2023-08-18T22:22:25Z")
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### Author: ![mho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@mho](https://hub.mender.io/u/mho)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2023, 10:22pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mark-artifact-version-as-inconsistent/6126/1 "2023-08-18T22:22:25Z")

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Is there a way to mark an artifact version as inconsistent from the device/mender client side?

There are cases where a previously-installed artifact gets messed up, for many reasons:

- corruption, breakage
- not read-only
- developer mucking around on test system
- a different board in a multi-system architecture gets updated, but that other board gets replaced, updated out of band, etc.

I see there’s a show-provides function in the mender client, but I didn’t see a “clear-provides” there. Is there some way to modify the “provides” from the mender client side?