Re: don't upgrade grub or grub-pc ! what's wrong with LILO ?
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 14:56:06 -0500 (EST), Tom H wrote:
> In this case, I would back up sources.list, create a new, one-line
> sources.list pointing at the main section of testing, purge unstable's
> grub-common and grub-pc, apt-get update, install testing's grub-common
> and grub-pc, delete the temporary sources.list, reinstate the original
> sources.list, and apt-get update (and possibly pin grub-common and
> grub-pc until the next version so that are not upgraded at the next
> apt-get upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade).
>
> BTW, these are the 386 versions in the repositories:
> grub-common_1.98~20100115-1_i386.deb 15-Jan-2010 20:04 1.4M
> grub-common_1.98~20100128-1_i386.deb 28-Jan-2010 18:06 1.4M
> grub-pc_1.98~20100115-1_i386.deb 15-Jan-2010 20:04 809K
> grub-pc_1.98~20100128-1_i386.deb 28-Jan-2010 18:06 820K
That sounds like a procedure for getting a down-level version
of a package from testing if you are running sid and the sid version
is broken. But that's not the scenario I'm talking about. In my
scenario, I'm running pure testing. If a broken package gets uploaded
to sid, I'll never know. I won't know until it migrates to testing.
And once it enters testing, and I upgrade my system, and it's broken,
and I want to go back to the version I was running before, then what?
I've got nowhere to retrieve the old package from.
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