Re: how do i downgrade to xfree86 on sid?

[Matt <mattlist@fastmail.fm>]

Joris Huizer wrote:

> matt wrote:
>
> > hi all,
> >
> > i can't really believe that i need to do this (i like xorg a lot) but i
> > need to downgrade to xfree in order to use a midified trident driver. 
> > since there are no xfree86 packages in the official repository, i can
> > only hope that they exist elsewhere...
> >
> > so, how can i use xfree instead of xorg on sid?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > +matt
>
> In case this really turns out this is the way to go for you, you could 
> install the xfree packages of sarge (current version: 
> "4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1")
>
> I guess you may need to uninstall xorg before doing this, though maybe 
> it is not strictly necessary
>
> HTH,
>
> Joris

Joris,

Thanks for the tip, I'm working on it right now, but was just wondering 
if you know of a "clean" way of doing this.  currently, i'm planing on 
removing x-org related packages, editing my sources.list to point to 
sarge, then apt-get installing the xfree packages.  however, when i 
apt-get upgrade with sid repositories later, xfree will be replaced with 
xorg due to the xserver-xorg transitional package.

so, is there a way to stop a certian package from being upgraded?

thanks,
Matt