Re: Help, I hosed my machine's software selection :-(
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 07:49:44PM -0400, stan wrote:
> I made teh stupid mistake of copying /etc/apt/sources from one machine to another.
> Problem is, I did not copy the preferences file also, and the new sources had a line
> referencing unstable.
>
> I then used dselect, and it upgraded 200= packages!
>
> At the monent, my system's pretty hosed (gnome does not work at all for instance).
>
> I have pretty decent Amanda backups. Is there some way that I can restore
> the system to wgere it was before? Either by using tha Amanda backups (but won't that muck up
> the Debian packages databse?) Or somehow get dselect or apt-get to resoter it to where it was
> yesterday?
If you think you want to be back at "testing".
Edit /etc/apt/preferences and set
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 1005
Then downgrade them.
Another way is use /var/bckup/dpkg.status.0 or similar...
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