On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 09:11:49PM +0100, Simon Tod wrote: > Wishing to downgrade a mixed box to stable I moved > /etc/apt/apt.conf out the way, commented out all the > lines corresponding to backports from > /etc/apt/sources.list and wrote /etc/apt/preferences > pinning stable at 1001 and testing at 550. After an > apt-get update I ran apt-get -s dist-upgrade and got 2 > problems... > > 1. It wants to remove kernel-image-2.4.20-686 and the > associated pcmcia-modules - not a surprise, but how do > I stop this happening? Tried to pin them at 1000 and > even removed the > Package: * > Pin: release a=testing > Pin-Priority: 550 > entry from /etc/apt/preferences as well, all to no > avail. I haven't used pinning, but you could try putting those packages (and their dependancies that are not available in the correct version in woody (such as initrd-tools)) on hold. > 2. I get the message > > WARNING: The following essential packages will be > removed > This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what > you are doing! > coreutils > > I'm certainly not comfortable with letting this > happen... why should it want to do this and can I let > it... otherwise how do I remedy this? coreutils is not part of woody. Make sure you have shellutils, textutils, and fileutils installed, then remove coreutils. -- Seneca seneca-cunningham@rogers.com
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