Re[2]: Problem with Downgrade of dpkg
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Dieter Tremel wrote:
> This means:
> a) I have to stay with testing or reinstall the whole system
> b) Smarter: I can hold dpkg and dselect from testing and downgrade all
> the other packages with /etc/apt/preferences
> right?
b is possible.
> This leads to a separate and optional dselect package, does it?
> Why then a
> # dpkg -r dselect --force-all
> is not possible?
Because dpkg needs to support upgrades done by dselect. Dselect needs to
always be in a working state in these cases.
This pre-depends will be removed in a future release of debian.
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