Re: failing to upgrade sysvinit from Knoppix version
Simon Tod <todsr1@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org> writes:
>
>> Knowing what exactly the version is might be helpful. If the
>> Knoppix people have added an epoch to their version number, APT
>> would be entirely correct in concluding that 1:2.84-mumble is newer
>> than 2.85-7. You might also check that your APT sources.list is
>> correct, and that you haven't set up funny APT pinning rules.
>>
>
> There's nothing wrong with my sources.list, it points
> to sid only. I'm not using any apt pinning rules.
>
> The problem is, as you guessed, the epoch number.
> Version 2:2.84-161.
>
> So, any ideas? How do I "downgrade" to the more up to
> date version in sid?
I'm not sure that I can think of a better way than downloading the
packages by hand and installing them directly using dpkg. :-/ Can
you readily identify the packages that are different versions than
what's in unstable? You can directly download the packages from your
favorite Debian mirror; this is easier if there are a small number of
them, of course. You also might be able to set up your APT
preferences file; apt_preferences(5) says that priorities over 1000
will causes packages to be downgraded.
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David Maze dmaze@debian.org http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/
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