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Re: backup apt tree?



Liviu Andronic schreef:
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:18 AM, T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com> wrote:
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:52:33 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
so anything catastrophic as to trash var/ will best be solved by a
complete reinstall.
2nd to that. package downgrading would never be "quickly and painlessly".
Do a complete system restore, that'd be more quickly and painlessly than
downgrading.

I am sorry but I don't quite follow. What could go wrong when trying
to downgrade a couple of packages (one of which misbehaves following
an upgrade)?
Downgrading is not supported. Changing the apt-config just means that the apt-files don't reflect the state of your system (as mentioned elsewhere in this thread). It will *not* fix your problem. You can of course uninstall the package and reinstall a previous version directly from its deb. To get that deb, you can use snapshot.debian.org or get it from the testing or stable repos.

Sjoerd

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