on Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 05:13:19PM -0500, Stan Brown (stanb@awod.com) wrote: > On Sun Mar 4 13:34:34 2001 mike polniak wrote... > > > >Gavin Hamill wrote: <...> > >> I thought that this was one of the new features of apt 0.5, that it > >> WILL downgrade when dists are changed? Maybe I > >> misheard/misinterpreted :// > > > > apt 0.5 is in unstable. From the man page: > > > >A specific version of a package can be selected for installation by > >following the package name with an equals and the version of the > >package to select. This will cause that version to be located and > >selected for install. Alternatively a specific distribution can be > >selected by following the package name with a slash and the version > >of the distribution or the Archive name (stable, frozen, unstable). > > > >Both of the version selection mechansims can downgrade packages and > >must be used with care > > > > So, does this mean I'm screwed? > > Or, perhaps I could manualy ftp atp-get from unstable, use dpkg > to install it, and try to downgrade? I'd use caution. If you *need* Oracle on the box, I'd pick my apps first and OS second -- downgrade to the appropriate level of Debian (even if that means a reinstall of Potato) and go from there. You can preserve (most) of your current package selections via the 'dpgk --get-selections > file' 'dpkg --set-selections < file' method, see various discussions on list or webpages on this. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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