Re: failing to upgrade sysvinit from Knoppix version
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, David Z Maze wrote:
> Simon Tod <todsr1@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
>
> > David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org> writes:
> >
> >> Knowing what exactly the version is might be helpful. If the
> >> Knoppix people have added an epoch to their version number, APT
> >> would be entirely correct in concluding that 1:2.84-mumble is newer
> >> than 2.85-7. You might also check that your APT sources.list is
> >> correct, and that you haven't set up funny APT pinning rules.
> >>
> >
> > There's nothing wrong with my sources.list, it points
> > to sid only. I'm not using any apt pinning rules.
> >
> > The problem is, as you guessed, the epoch number.
> > Version 2:2.84-161.
> >
> > So, any ideas? How do I "downgrade" to the more up to
> > date version in sid?
>
> I'm not sure that I can think of a better way than downloading the
> packages by hand and installing them directly using dpkg. :-/
apt-get install sysvinit/stable
is one command to consider but see what things it may 'take with it'. If
you downgrade, they you MAY have to solve some other problems.
-Kev
Can
> you readily identify the packages that are different versions than
> what's in unstable? You can directly download the packages from your
> favorite Debian mirror; this is easier if there are a small number of
> them, of course. You also might be able to set up your APT
> preferences file; apt_preferences(5) says that priorities over 1000
> will causes packages to be downgraded.
>
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