Re: debian-powerpc: debconf, perl, apt-get errors

[Michel Dänzer <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch>]

Steven Hanley wrote:
> 
> > You can't really down-grade, that I know of, by changing your
> > apt/sources.list, mainly because of dependencies and so on. You'd really
> > have to start over if you want to go back to potato...
> 
> well actually you can, I wont gurantee that it will work (I never tried it)
> however put
> 
> DPkg
> {
>    Options {"--force-downgrade"}
> }
> 
> into /etc/apt/apt.conf
> 
> then on a potato apt source do apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade
> 
> in theory it should work

Not likely as this is for dpkg which doesn't even get invoked by apt-get when
it decides not to downgrade.

What you could do is append /stable to every single package using apt-get 0.5
or later. But then, who wants to go back to potato? :)


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