apt-get dist-downgrade?
Hi!
Stupid question for debian users here: is there an easy way to
"downgrade" a distro from testing/sarge to stable/woody?
The reason I ask is that a couple of weeks ago I performed a
dist-upgrade on the Mac G3 running stable/woody. It was working just
fine but I needed some packaged that were only available in testing &
unstable and the libc6 package was not compatible. So I went for testing
by changing the apt-preferences and performed a dist-upgrade.
Bad idea. Now the mac will randomly look dead when I try to access it in
the morning -- no network access, nothing interactive session... I looks
kind of random too, sometime it's up for a couple of days, sometimes
more, sometimes less. I can't figure what is the source of the problem.
So I'd like to revert the packages to stable/woody. I changed
apt-preferences (pinned down testing) and did a dist-upgrade (dry run)
and apt-get just tells me everything's fine, I have the latest
packages... Hmmm not what I want. I could try removing all source.list
entries but the stable one maybe? My guess is apt-get will still tell me
I have the latest packages of everything. I don't feel like reinstalling
the whole system from scratch nor using apt-get to downgrade each
package individually.
Ideas welcome.
R/
Reply to: