Re: downgrade to sarge

[Jérôme Warnier <jwarnier@beeznest.net>]

Le mercredi 23 mars 2005 à 21:11 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit :
> 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

Or even (I'm not completely sure, though):
apt-get -t testing install package_name


> MfG
>         Goswin