Re: forcing dselect to downgrade
Stephen Pitts wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 09:17:52PM -0500, Tommy wrote:
> > I have been experiencing some problems due to my carelessly mixing
> > releases. In order to fix the problem I would like to bring my system
> > back to a state where only " Stable" components from my Debian 2.0 cd
> > are on it, so that everything works correctly. And I can move forward
> > from there if I choose.
> >
> > Dselect, will not normally replace a newer version with an old one. How
> > do I override this?
> >
> >
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> You don't. Downgrading packages has undefined results. A better option would be to
> tell the list about your problems and we'll help you fix them
I agree with stephen about using apt, but, for the record, I
should point out that dpkg can be told to downgrade a package with
'--force-downgrade'.
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Ed C.
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