On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:17:39PM -0500, Simon Law wrote: > 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. No, that assumes the packages support downgrading, which they don't. The only way to downgrade a Debian system is to reinstall. This script does an install-and-switch, so on a Debian host that becomes a reinstall, which is the closest you'll ever get to a downgrade. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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