Re: apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't downgrade to stable

[Simon Law <sfllaw@engmail.uwaterloo.ca>]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 06:15:53PM +0200, Mohammed Sameer wrote:
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> Hi,
> I have a mixed system (stable+unstable) and wanted to downgrade to stable.
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> here's my /etc/apt/preferences
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> Package: *
> Pin: release a=stable
> Pin-Priority: 1001
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> and /etc/apt/apt.conf
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> APT::Default-Release "stable";

	Make sure you have stable in your sources.list.  Take out
APT::Default-Release "stable";.  Then "apt-get update && apt-get -t
stable dist-upgrade".  You should see it downgrade.

Simon