Re: downgrade wants to rm coreutils!
these files should be loaded after you do
apt-get update, apt-get install with sources.list pointing to woody.
if not, try
apt-get install fileutils-etc
let us know it it works
----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Tod" <todsr1@yahoo.co.uk>
To: "Antonio Rodriguez" <arodriguez31@cfl.rr.com>;
<debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 3:47 PM
Subject: 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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