On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 12:17:40PM -0600, DvB wrote: > Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> writes: > > > On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:24:31PM -0600, Jason Pepas wrote: > > > I recently wanted to install perlmagick, which depends on an older version of > > > perl-api than the one currently on my system. > > > > > > This can be remedied by specifying which branch of perl I want (ie, > > > perl/testing), however, this causes all the packages which depend on my > > > current version of perl-spi to be removed. > > > > > > My question is, does there exist a way to tell apt to downgrade a package, and > > > attempt to downgrade dependant packages instead of removing them? > > > > I think it's possible to do this using apt's pinning feature. The real > > solution is to use a single Debian distribution, so that you don't get > > dependency breakage like this (aside from during transitions, of > > course). > > > I know dpkg, with --force-downgrade or something like that, has a > downgrade feature if you have the package on your system (I've used it > before. Run man dpkg for more details). I don't know if apt has taken > advantage of this feature or not, though. If so, it's in the apt man > page. Yep, true. apt can be setup to downgrade your whole system to testing though, which would fix the general problem he's having, and which will probably crop up again in the future. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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