Re: Problem with Downgrade of dpkg
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Dieter Tremel wrote:
> Hello debian-user,
>
> unfortunaltely I did a dist-upgrade to woody leading to testing.
> (in sources.list testing was written from earlyer times). :-(
>
> with Pinning I wanted do downgrade to stable, but at dpkg
> it stops:
>
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> dpkg - warning: downgrading dpkg from 1.10.4 to 1.9.21.
> (Reading database ... 49494 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace dpkg 1.10.4 (using .../archives/dpkg_1.9.21_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement dpkg ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.9.21_i386.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite `/etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg', which is also in package dselect
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.9.21_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> How is it going on? Thank You for help!
Downgrades are not supported.
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