CW Harris wrote:
Not an expert in apt management, so... On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 11:56:05AM -0300, Roberto Winter wrote:Hi again, doesn't the output from "apt-cache policy" guarantee that (see my first message)?I think it will *still* not downgrade a package that is already installed. Its primary purpose is for assisting in upgrades. Downgrades are not really supported.
Hi,I just remembered I found a great 'manual' I used successfully to downgrade a knoppix mess to real stable Debian:
http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/debian/testing/2003/07/msg00039.htmlYou really need to do the forced downgrade for fileutils, shellutils, textutils and debianutils if apt-get starts complaining about coreutils being removed - before you actually let it remove it!! You're system will be sort of crippled if you have the testing versions of fileutil, shellutils, textutils and debianutils still in place and coreutils is removed (I did that once :-/ )
Also, a lot of packages may be removed; (as the dependencies cause problems) so it'll be a good idea to put all in a log file (say, using `script logfile`)
HTH, Joris