Hi Doug On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 16:42, Douglas Hoen wrote: > I want to downgrade an arbitrary set of packages to lower versions, en > masse _without manual intervention_. I have a repository containing a > complete set of packages that I want to install onto any system, > forcing downgrades if necessary. (All dependent packages are contained > in the repository.) > > Is there some way to do this? For instance, is there some way to > instruct the policy engine when doing a dist-upgrade to perform > automatic downgrades of particular packages by using pin priorities? I'm not really sure I understand your situation, but if your packages are in a directory you could use dpkg -i $(ls <packages-dir>) The --force-downgrade option of dpkg is on by default, so you shouldn't need to set it. Cheers -- Leo Costela costelaaa@ig.com.br | leo@wallsplash.net | costela@pop.com.br Public Key: http://wallsplash.net/leo/pubkey.asc "you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest... with... a herring!"
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