Re: World Domination Plan - phase debtakeover
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 10:12:38PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 12:41:05PM -0800, Keegan Quinn wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 07:24:04AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > > I've made now publicly available the script[1] I've been working on
> > > to substitute in runtime any distribution to Debian. It does not
> > > convert in the sense of mapping all previous installed packages to
> > > the Debian counterparts, but installs a base system or tarball and
> > > cleans traces from previous distribution, from there you are in a
> > > purified environment. =P
> >
> > Does it support reverting a Debian unstable system to stable?
>
> Currently it detects if it's a pure debian system (not a mixed one) and
> halts the process but I could add a parameter to force to retakeover a
> debian system, so you could downgrade a whole system. But take into
> account that until I don't implement the file to packages mapping it
> will install only a base system, and it will not preserve the
> configurations (only backup them).
The best way to downgrade a system is to use apt-pinning.
I guess you could automate the process, though.
Simon
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