Re: apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't downgrade to stable
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Once upon a time Simon Law wrote @ Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:29:14 -0500
> 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.
> >
> > here's my /etc/apt/preferences
> >
> > Package: *
> > Pin: release a=stable
> > Pin-Priority: 1001
> >
> > and /etc/apt/apt.conf
> >
> > 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
>
I've managed lastly to do that, though the system was broken during the
downgrade and i had to --force-all the removal of some packages "libc"
but i lastly did it, Not so easy you know :-)
mmmm Can't imagine myself doing that on an RPM based system ;)
Really thanks for help
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