Re: apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't downgrade to stable
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 11:08:09PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
...
> testing system. I followed the same steps as above, except replacing
> the string 'stable' with 'testing'. Nevertheless, nothing got
> downgraded (see below for details).
>
> I know that I previously installed perl-5.8.0 from the 'unstable'
> distribution, and that it is my default perl interpreter (I can tell by
> running "perl -V"). But the following did not do anything, and after
> these steps, I was still using perl-5.8.0 instead of perl-5.6.1 from
> 'testing' ...
>
> contents of /etc/apt/preferences
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=testing
> Pin-Priority: 1001
>
> /etc/apt/apt.conf was completely deleted
>
> Then ...
>
> apt-get update && apt-get -t testing dist-upgrade
^^^^^^^^^^
Why -t is set here
-t set priority of that "testing" to 990 overriding 1001
This is what went wrong.
# apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
This is what you needed :-)
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