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Re: backup apt tree?



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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