Re: Is there an easy way to get back from unstable to testing?
To quote Stephen Rueger <stephen.rueger@hadiko.de>,
# Hello!
#
# I made a silly mistake and did an apt-get upgrade and forgot that my
# sources.list was pointing to unstable instead of testing. Then I made
# a even more silly mistake and didn't looked at what apt-get was
# doing. So now I have an testing/unstable-installation that is really
# unstable (e.g. fetchmail stops because of a segmentation fault).
#
# I tried to find a way to downgrade back to only testing, but the only
# way I found would be to remove all packages not needed to install
# other packages and then doing a nearly complete reinstall.
# apt-get --reinstall doesn't work in this case because I have to
# replace packages with older versions of it.
#
# Can someone give me a hint how I can do this with less work of my own?
I've never had to do it, but if you gave 'apt-get' the "--reinstall"
option, after changing sources.list to point to the distribution you
want, I think it would downgrade all your packages. Dunno for sure,
though.
Dave
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