Re: uninstall some TESTING packages

[Craig Longman <craigl@begeek.com>]

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:

> Craig Longman wrote:
>
> > well, my worst nightmare with a package managed system.  i need to
> > install qt-3.0.5 to get a fix for a daylight savings time bug, but was
> > only available in the TESTING branch.  so i added it in, installed it
> > and the other packages that were required from testing, unfortunately a
> > version of glibc and binutils and a bunch of other obviously system wide
> > things, and now my machine is behaving very badly.  i need to remove
> > anything from the TESTING tree and replace it with the one(s) from
> > STABLE.  then i'll just get the source code for qt 3.0.5 and install 
> > that.
>
> First, it may not be possible to revert.  However, if you need packages
> from testing or unstable, you have a few options.  First, you can check
> www.backports.org, which has some very recent qt packages compiled for
> Sarge.  Second, you can try backporting the package yourself, which is
> not difficult: http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto/howtos/debcustomize

thanks, but i'm still stuck with a broken install.

i can't figure out how to track down where the installed package came 
from.  i think i can figure out how to force the 'upgrade' back to the 
stable version, but i can find no way of determining which packages 
installed on my machine come from testing, and which ones come from 
stable...?

cheers,

  CraigL->Thx();