Re: Doing a mass downgrade
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 13:04, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> Dale Hair <dale@meridian-electric.com> writes:
>
> > On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 12:03, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> >> Dale Hair <dale@meridian-electric.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > [ ... ]
> >> >
> >> > Giving testing a priority of 1001 will downgrade to testing.
> >>
> >> Thank you. I just did that. And now, which `apt-get' or `aptitude'
> >> command(s) should I invoke to perform this downgrade?
> >>
> >> [ ... ]
> >
> > apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> I did this, but nothing happened. The command session is shown below.
> I know that a number of unstable packages had been previously installed.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks.
>
> # apt-get dist-upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Calculating Upgrade... Done
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>
>
> --
> Lloyd Zusman
> ljz@asfast.com
If your /etc/apt/preferences has
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 1001
and unstable with a priority lower than 1000, then you must not have any
packages from unstable.
--
Dale Hair <dale@meridian-electric.com>
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