David Fokkema wrote:
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:22:57AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote:-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:16, Carl Fink wrote:On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:13:37AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote:A few weeks ago (I don't know about now), the KDE distribution in unstable simply would not run ... How does one recover from something like this short of doing a reload?Don't run KDE for a week or so until it's fixed? Downgrade to the version in Testing, which will still work? I mean, you DO know how to do both of those things from the command line, right? And how to get to the command line when X won't work? Otherwise, really, you shouldn't use Unstable.Certainly I can turn off KDE; cripples KDevelop which is needed, but can be done easily. As to downgrading, I've read answers to several questions saying that can't be done with apt. Unless those answers were wrong, no, I don't know how to - short of a reload.You can downgrade with apt, that's no problem at all! What you _can't_ do, is downgrading _all_ packages to the version numbers available in testing. If you downgrade, you have to specify things like apt-get install gs=7.07-1 Doing that for hundreds of packages is no fun.
Not exactly, if you put: Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 1001in /etc/apt/preferences, and do an apt-get dist-upgrade, apt will happily /try/ to downgrade every package to its testing version[alternatively adding that to /etc/apt/preferences will let you do apt-get install <testing-package> without needing the version number]. It just isn't guaranteed to work, and isn't considered a bug if it doesn't.
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