Re: Sarge->Woody downgrade?
It looks ok, but I've met a rather critial obstacle here.
Dselect is to be REMOVED and is marked as "Obsolete".
What should I do? How is it possible - woody has dselect too!!
Thanks for any help!!
Dave
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 12:23:40PM -0400, Chris Caldwell wrote:
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> Dave Lister sent the following message Today:
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> DL> Hi guys,
> DL> I'm using sarge for quite a while now, but I'm having
> DL> inconveniencies with the maintenance compared to peaceful
> DL> and quiet woods of woody. I'd like to downgrade back to
> DL> stable. Is there any clean way of getting this done,
> DL> without any stuff remaining on my drive unreferenced?
> DL> I'd like to have clean woody back again ;)
> DL>
> DL> Thanks,
> DL> Dave
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> Your /etc/apt/preferences should look something like this:
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> Package: *
> Pin: release a=stable
> Pin-Priority: 1001
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> Package: *
> Pin: release a=testing
> Pin-Priority: 900
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> I've had good luck doing this, but your mileage may vary. After
> the downgrade you may want to install deborphan to remove
> unreferenced libraries, etc. Certain packages have been
> problematic in the past (dpkg).
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