On Tuesday 20 April 2010 13:49:32 Liviu Andronic wrote:
> What files contain the information on the current ("now") apt tree? I
> would like to perform backups of these files so that I could restore
> the tree if some package upgrade messed up my Debian testing.
Restoring those files would not actually cause a downgrade to occur. They
would just cause the state of the package manager to not accurately reflect
the state of the system. -- Unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean by "apt
tree".
If you need an old package, snapshot.debian.org should have it. You can then
you pinning to avoid upgrading it -- either to a specific version or at all.
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