Re: Downgrading

[Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org>]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 11:16:49PM -0400, Mark Bucciarelli wrote:
> Is there a safe way to downgrade packages in Debian?

No.

> The dpkg man page has the scary warning that no dependency checking is
> done and the apt-get man page just says downgrades "must be used with
> care."  Heh.

Hmm, I'd think maintainer scripts would pose the biggest problem, since
they may make backward-incompatible changes.

> Before I upgrade my functioning testing boxes to Sarge, I would like to
> know how to back out the upgrade, if necessary.

The only safe way is to make a full system backup and restore it if
things go wrong.

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