Re: Debian downgrade from unstable to testing

[richard lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Friday 28 May 2004 16:08, Niels L. Ellegaard wrote:
> Joseph <linux@sys-concept.com> writes:
> > I don't have this manual 5 apt_preferences installed.  When I
> > create the preferences file name, I get: E: Invalid record in
> > preferences file...
>
> My guess is that you have to create the file /etc/apt/preferences,
> but I don't know much about knoppix.

Knoppix has the usual apt conf and preferences files - comes set up 
for testing, with testing at 900 and unstable at 600 IIRC.  Knoppix 
sources.list by default has sources for stable as well. 

> Anyway here is a link to a 
> relevant page in apt-howto.
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-de
>fault-version
>
> If you get an error named invalid record then you may have made a
> typing error in the file.

-- 
richard