Re: stop from upgrading
2006. July 27. 11:35, Paras pradhan:
> Hi:
>
> Its cupsys and some cupsys dependent packages. Since the current
> cupsys packages is not functioning well.
>
>
> Paras.
>
> On 7/26/06, LeVA <leva@az.isten.hu> wrote:
> > 2006. July 26. 14:11, Paras pradhan:
> > > Hi all:
> > >
> > > Due to some reasons i need to degrade few packages to older
> > > versions. After that when i want to install any other packages,
> > > then it prompts to first do: apt-get -f install. How do i get rid
> > > of this?
> >
> > What are those packages which you want to keep downgraded? Just in
> > case it is not the C library or some other basic stuff which is
> > needed by almost all packages there could be a solution depending
> > on what is the package.
> >
Although I don't have much experience with the apt preferences file, I
suggest you to read the apt_preferences(5) man page.
Apt can be configured to allow downgrading packages, but the man also
says: "Note also that downgrading a package can be risky." :)
Daniel
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LeVA
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