Re: Downgrade libxi6 -- HowTo? (Bug 515734)
Dne, 29. 09. 2009 23:39:28 je Johan Kullstam napisal(a):
> Klistvud <quotations@aliceadsl.fr> writes:
>
> > Greetings, fellow Debianites!
> >
> > I've recently installed Debian 5.0.3 on my other machine and am
> > experiencing bug
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515734
> > (keymaps messed up in X).
> >
> > Now, the suggestion is to downgrade the libxi6 library. I have
> several
> > "noob" questions about that:
>
> You will want to know the bad version for step 2. Use aptitude show
> <package> to print information. Copy the version string, call it
> <version>.
>
> > 1. How do you go about "downgrading" a package in Debian --
> especially
> > if it's a fresh system that's never been "upgraded" in the first
> > place?
>
> With ftp over to your debian repository and download a past version.
> I
> just did this on my sid boxen with xserver-xorg-core and
> xserver-common.
> I just fetched the older testing versions. There is also
> debian-snapshot which will give older versions. Use dpkg -i
> <package...>.deb to install it. The dpkg command will warn you about
> the downgrade.
>
> There's probably some fancy way to do the above with aptitude.
>
> > 2. Won't the Debian maintainers fix the issue in a future official
> > update
> > anyway? Wouldn't "downgrading" the package on my own accord
> potentially
> > interfere with such official update?
>
> This is the trick: forbid the offending version. Do
> aptitude forbid-version <package>=<version>
> This says you don't want *that* version, but that future updates are
> acceptable.
>
> > 3. How come there still hasn't been such an update? The bug is
> marked
> > as "grave" and it probably wouldn't be hard for the maintainer(s)
> to
>
> > force the reccommended downgrade of the libxi6 library in a regular
> > update?
>
> Sometimes bug fixes take longer than you'd like. It's a vollonteer
> effort. The maintainer has to be available, find a solution and test
> it, wait for build and then debian seems to release new filesets
> twice
> daily.
>
> That said, when a clearly broken version gets released, detected and
> acknowledged, there could perhaps be some automated mechanism to
> revert
> to previous.
>
> > Forgive my noobness, but I still haven't quite grasped the Debian
> > procedures and mechanisms. But I'm doing a lot of reading, so I
> hope
>
> > I'll catch up in time. I already know how to open a terminal and
> type
> > "ls".
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > --
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>
> --
> Johan KULLSTAM
>
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Many thanx for the exhaustive explanation, it cleared many hazy notions
in my head. Now I know how to proceed.
Regards,
Klistvud
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Certifiable Loonix User 481801
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