Re: how to downgrade a package and set it to hold in dselect ?

[Craig Dickson <crdic@yahoo.com>]

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:

> dselect will only show you the latest version of a package.  In fact the
> version you want may no longer exist.

Which is why /var/cache/apt/archives is your friend. I wrote a script to
run through that directory and delete all but the most recent two versions
of all packages. This way I have an escape route if the newest version
has problems, and /var/cache/apt/archives keeps to a reasonable size.

Craig