Re: Doing a mass downgrade
Dale Hair <dale@meridian-electric.com> writes:
> On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 13:04, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
>>
>> [ ... ]
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> [ ... ]
>
> 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.
Well then, I guess I must have just gotten lucky since I started
downloading with 'unstable' having the highest priority, such that my
only upgrades happened to come from the 'stable' or 'testing'
categories.
Thanks for your help.
--
Lloyd Zusman
ljz@asfast.com
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