Re: Doing a mass downgrade
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 10:21, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> I'm using the priorities in /etc/apt/preferences to control the software
> base from which I'm updating my system. I had 'testing' set to the
> highest priority for a long time. But recently, I made the mistake of
> setting 'unstable' to be the highest priority, which meant that my daily
> upgrade runs from "aptitude" started bringing in a lot of 'sid'
> packages.
>
> Well, needless to say, my system is now unstable, and now I'd like to
> back out all of these 'unstable' packages. The problem is that I'm not
> sure which packages I have upgraded to 'unstable', and which ones are
> still either 'stable' or 'testing' packages.
>
> What is the recommended way to do a mass downgrade so that all my
> 'unstable' packages get downgraded to 'testing' versions? I have
> already reset the priorities in /etc/apt/preferences so that 'testing'
> has the highest priority, 'stable' has the next highest, and 'unstable'
> has the lowest (my current /etc/apt/preferences listing follows).
>
> So now what should I do to perform the mass downgrade?
>
> I apologize if this question was answered here recently. One side
> effect of my newly created system instability is that I lost lots of my
> archived email messages, including many from this mailing list.
>
> Thanks in advance for any pointers and suggestions you can offer.
>
>
> Current /etc/apt/preferences
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=stable
> Pin-Priority: 500
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=testing
> Pin-Priority: 600
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=unstable
> Pin-Priority: 5
>
> --
> Lloyd Zusman
> ljz@asfast.com
Giving testing a priority of 1001 will downgrade to testing.
--
Dale Hair <dale@meridian-electric.com>
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