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? I assume you want to downgrade to woody/testing. What comes to mind: comment out reference to unstable in /etc/apt/sources.list Create /etc/apt/preferences with these three lines: Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 1001 Then try: apt-get update apt-get -u dist-upgrade Good luck. -- Jerome
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