Re: downgrade to sarge

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

Jérôme Warnier <jwarnier@beeznest.net> writes:

> 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

That only work for package_name if it is not yet installed. Adding
--reinstall would downgrade but not follow through with depends.

MfG
        Goswin