Re: Doing a mass downgrade

[Antonio Rodriguez <arodriguez31@cfl.rr.com>]

Checking my system, I don't have any /etc/apt/preferences file. What 
script installs it? It seems to be a regular text file from what I read 
in this thread. I am planing to downgrade one of my boxes from sid to 
sarge, this seems to be the way to go, but I don't know the exact 
configuration of this mentioned "preference"
?

Dale Hair wrote:

> 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.
>
>