On 0, nate <debian-user@aphroland.org> wrote: > Frisurf said: > > A question for a friend of mine: is it possible to downgrade libc6. he > > upgraded libc6 on his stable machine using the unstable's version. He > > encountered some problems trying to downgrade (installing the former > > .deb). A conflict with libdb1-compat . > > > > I read in an old forum (August 2001) that downgrading libc6 is not > > supported. Is that true? > > if libc6 is the ONLY thing he installed it may be possible to force > downgrade. one of my friends installed the unstable of libc6 version > on a potato system about 8 months ago because he thought he could do > this to run the new mailman. of course many things broke. I was able > to manually download and install the potato version of libc6 on his > system with dpkg -i --force-depends --force-overwrite(i think thats > it) and the system didn't flinch, no problems after that until the > 2 disks failed 3-4 months later. > > I would backup any data you really want if possible before attempting > this, technically I don't think its supported, but it is possible at > least in my experience. I've successfully downgraded a whole system from unstable to stable by setting the pin-priority of stable over 1000 in /etc/apt/preferences and using apt-get dist-upgrade. Shouldn't this sort of thing work to downgrade any unstable packages on the system? Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "Chaos Theory is a new theory invented by scientists panicked by the thought that the public were beginning to understand the old ones." - Mike Barfield Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au
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