Re: Debian Releases (was: Show me the money)
On Sep 2, Carey Evans wrote
> dselect (actually dpkg) won't downgrade existing packages.
Actually, dpkg _as called by dselect_ won't downgrade existing packages.
If you use dpkg directly, you should know what you are doing. dpkg
will downgrade existing packages, unless told not to. dselect calls dpkg
with this option (--refuse-downgrade).
Ray
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