Re: is it possible to downgrade from woody
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:45:04PM +0300, Nantenaina Tianarivo Ulrich wrote:
>
> I was playing with mt test machin. and I've tried to upgrade my debian
> on this machine from a potato to a woody.
>
> But after the upgrade,I found out that some of my application don't work
> anymore. As, we are many to work on this machine, I'd like to go back to
> my last version.
>
> My questions are :
>
> Is it possible?
> If so how can I do it?
>
> Any help would be appreciate.
>
>
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There has been prior messages on the list on this subject. You should
be able to find them by searching the archives.
Theoretically, it should be possible by setting Pin-Priorities in
/etc/apt/preferences, having your sources.list point to stable, and
running apt-get upgrade. Read the man page for apt-preferences. Here is
couple of messages from list archives on the subject:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200112/msg01605.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200111/msg04382.html
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:jAH6h0SehT0C:qref.sourceforge.net/quick/ch-package.html+woody+downgrade&hl=en
I say theoretically since I haven't tried this myself, and I don't
quite understand the logic of how this can successfully be done.
You could likely end up with a totally broken system.
What are the applications that no longer work?
Good luck.
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Jerome
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