Re: downgrade to sarge

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Jérôme Warnier <jwarnier@beeznest.net> writes:

> Le jeudi 03 mars 2005 à 20:08 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit :
>> Dr Gavin Seddon <gavinseddon@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
>> 
>> > Hi,
>> > I have decided to downgrade to sarge.  On of the beutiful things about
>> > Debian, I just need to modify /etc/apt/sources.list and 'dist upgrade'.
>> 
>> That doesn't downgrade anything.
> You're right of course.
>
> What I suggest is to install and use "apt-show-versions" to see exactly
> what happens. Then, you can always use "apt-cache policy" and "apt-get
> install package_name=version_number" to downgrade actually.

Or

mrvn@frosties:~% cat /etc/apt/preferences
Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian-amd64,a=testing,v=3.1
Pin-Priority: 1001


MfG
        Goswin