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Re: how to downgrade: woody -> potato ??



Rob Torop wrote:
> 
> I upgraded from potato to woody (by changing sources.list and doing an
> update then dist-upgrade).  Now I want to go back!  I replaced "testing"
> with "stable" in sources.list, but I can't figure out what to do now to
> get it to revert everything to potato.  Can someone advise me?

maybe someone should make apt-get print out a big warning saying once
you do a dist-upgrade you can't go back.. everytime ive seen this question
asked(im not a testing/woody user or a sid/unstable user) the answer has
always been no. apparently a new version of apt in unstable may be able
to downgrade, but i dont think it would work unless you upgraded
originally using that version of apt ..

in short looks like u gotta reinstall if u want potato back..unless
u want to grab a list of your installed packages and try to do
a buncha dpkg -i --force-overwrite's but that is probably dangerous.

nate

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