Undo in dselect
Hi,
I'm back to debian after a couple of years with Redhat/Mandrake. What
triggered the change was the possibility to upgrade certain packages,
without having a to perform a full reinstall. Anyway, here is my
question:
How do I safely revert to a previous status. To be specific: I
installed a few packages from the unstable branch, which required
upgrading certain others. I now want to go back: deinstall these
"unstable" packages, and downgrade the others. I know precisely which
status I want (say /var/lib/dpkg/status.yesterday.3.gz). So I
imagined to replace /var/lib/dpkg/status with this uncompressed file.
Then dselect shows only my old selections, but it completely forgot
what was really installed. So I suppose this is really a dangerous
point to start with.
Any help very welcome!
On a similar tone: is there a way to undo the selection process in
dselect. I suppose I am not the only one to have lost the opportunity
to scan through "new" packages, by hitting return one time too much.
All in all, an undo function would be very reassuring. Looking back,
this is what really makes me nervous when I start dselect (together
with those bloody messages that are lost forever after a couple of
screens...).
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