Re: downgrade wants to rm coreutils!
Thanks for the ref. Seems to be *about* ready to go
but I'm still not able to get rid of the coreutils
problem. The dpkg -i --force-overwritee lines don't
work, I get the error
dpkg -i --force-overwrite
/var/cache/apt/archives/fileutils_4.1-10_i386.deb
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/fileutils_4.1-10_i386.deb
(--install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/fileutils_4.1-10_i386.deb
I guess this is because I regularly run apt-get clean
so there's very little in the archive...
Looking through /var/lib/dpkg/status I find
Package: fileutils
Essential: yes
Status: install ok installed
Priority: required
Section: basei
Installed-Size: 1928
Maintainer: Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>
Version: 4.1-10
Replaces: color-ls, util-linux (<= 2.7.1-1)
Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4)
Conflicts: color-ls
so this looks to me that the version from stable is
the one I've got installed at the moment, rather than
that from testing, and the same with shellutils and
textutils. Surely then they don't need
downgrading....? Why the coreutils warning then, or am
I still missing something?!
THANKS!
> I did a downgrade to stable 2 days ago, from
> testing. It was a whole
> adventure. The best guide was:
> http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=880
> and among all, the way I followed was the second,
> the one that starts with:
>
> %%%%% starts here
>
> Subject: APT pinning and how to fix gliches of the
> results
> Author: osamu
> Date: Tuesday, 2003/02/18 - 05:09
>
> One of the "Debian Reference" reader's comment on
> the downgrading experience
> and my comments for that. Anyway, as few other posts
> already pointed out,
> APT pinning is the way to downgrade system.
>
> Downgrading from testing to stable
>
> By Auke Jilderda <auke@jilderda.net> Thu Dec 26
> 07:22:28 2002
>
> %%%%%% etc
>
> I had the same problem that you describe with
> coreeutils, however, after
> applying the dpkg -i --force etc
> it went smoothly. In several cases (not described
> here) I applied the same
> recipe, run apt-get upgrade several times, even had
> to remove all
> directories containing gdm2 by hand, since I had
> gnome2 in my system and I
> wanted to get back to pure woody.
> Notice that after doing
>
> dpkg -i --force-overwrite
> /var/cache/apt/archives/fileutils_4.1-10_i386.deb
> dpkg -i --force-overwrite
>
/var/cache/apt/archives/shellutils_2.0.11-11_i386.deb
> dpkg -i --force-overwrite
> /var/cache/apt/archives/textutils_2.0-12_i386.deb
>
> the problem with coreutils vanished.
>
> Mailman refused any attempt to be downgraded, same
> for libpaperg,
> common-lis-controller.
> I also had to several times run "apt-get -f install"
> after removing by hand
> stubborn packages.
> Finally, add the security lines to your
> sources.list, run dselect several
> times, combined with apt-get, and you should have a
> pure woody back.
> One interesting remark is that after apt-get upgrade
> was indicating all ok,
> still dselect was able to find about a hundred or so
> packages to be removed
> and downgraded.
> Any way, after doing all that and more that I didn't
> write down (sorry for
> that), I finally have back a pure woody station.
> Testing is great, but since
> I have that machine dedicated to some serious work,
> I couldn't afford the
> some times instability of broken packages.
> Enjoy,
> AR
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Simon Tod" <todsr1@yahoo.co.uk>
> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 4:11 PM
> Subject: downgrade wants to rm coreutils!
>
>
> > Wishing to downgrade a mixed box to stable I moved
> > /etc/apt/apt.conf out the way, commented out all
> the
> > lines corresponding to backports from
> > /etc/apt/sources.list and wrote
> /etc/apt/preferences
> > pinning stable at 1001 and testing at 550. After
> an
> > apt-get update I ran apt-get -s dist-upgrade and
> got 2
> > problems...
> >
> > 1. It wants to remove kernel-image-2.4.20-686 and
> the
> > associated pcmcia-modules - not a surprise, but
> how do
> > I stop this happening? Tried to pin them at 1000
> and
> > even removed the
> > Package: *
> > Pin: release a=testing
> > Pin-Priority: 550
> > entry from /etc/apt/preferences as well, all to no
> > avail.
> >
> > 2. I get the message
> >
> > WARNING: The following essential packages will be
> > removed
> > This should NOT be done unless you know exactly
> what
> > you are doing!
> > coreutils
> >
> > I'm certainly not comfortable with letting this
> > happen... why should it want to do this and can I
> let
> > it... otherwise how do I remedy this?
> >
> > TIA.
> >
> > Simon.
> >
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