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Re: Debian Downgrade question



On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 21:17 -0800, Bill MacAllister wrote:
> Jamie,
> 
> Thanks very much for this.  It when mostly as planned.  There were two 
> problems that I hit.
> 
This is why downgrades aren't officially supported.  But you found your
way, so good.  :)

> The only question that I have at this point is should I remove the 
> preferences from /etc/apt?  I don't really understand what I did here.  Can 
> you point me to a document that describes what you suggested?

Either remove it or save it for future reference.  What you did there is
make packages downgradable.  See:

man apt_preferences

-- 
James Strandboge
jamie@strandboge.com



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