On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 08:24, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > Steve Juranich wrote: [downgrading] > I'm not an expert for sure but I just came across this the other > day while reading up about apt pinning. I think what you need to > do is pin sarge with a priority greater than 1000. Something > along the following lines in your /etc/apt/preferences > > Package: * > Pin: release a=testing > Pin-Priority: 1001 I would advise against downgrading - it is usually not tested, and a few things (minor - such as dpkg...) are known to break depending on the versions involved. > you might also need to add the following line to /etc/apt/apt.conf > APT::Default-Release "testing"; I would advise to have this, and to have both unstable and testing in sources.list, together with a sensible preferences file. So you can still mix packages between unstable and testing. But basically (unless you have some real brokenness that needs attending) I would just wait. cheers -- vbi -- secure email with gpg http://fortytwo.ch/gpg NOTICE: subkey signature! request key 92082481 from keyserver.kjsl.com
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