Re: How to back up from "sid" to "testing"?
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 01:34:45PM -0500, Rob Bochan wrote:
> On Friday 19 November 2004 12:56 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote:
>
> > > What's the most reasonable way to *downgrade* a system from sid to
> > > testing? Do I need to suck it up and do a reinstall?
> >
> dpkg --get-selections > packages.dpkg
> dpkg --set-selections < packages.dpkg
Won't this be problematic? Sarge has different package names in it
than Sid, and you may select something you really don't want to select
or may miss something key. It seems like something you really need to
eyeball.
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