Re: downgrade Sid --> sarge or woody

[Kevin Bailey <kbailey@ind.alcatel.com>]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 09:42:38AM +0100, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
> 
> Just reinstall the machine, that's the safest procedure.

I didn't find it that difficult. Create /etc/apt/preferences
and put this in it:

Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 1001

and of course change (or add ?) sources to sources.list for
testing. Then run:

apt-get -s dist-upgrade

to see if everything would be ok. If so:

apt-get dist-upgrade

I found they're actually quite close, so very little changes
were necessary.

I don't know about you but I feel safer doing things like this
outside of X.

Regards,
krb