On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 02:09:42PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > If you can *find* it, yes. For example, if you are running "sid", and > a new upload breaks, you may be able to find an older version in > "testing" that still works. But if you are running "testing" and an > upload breaks, where are you going to find a down-level version that > you can install? The version in "stable" was probably compiled with > a back-level C compiler and may require a back-level C run-time > library, etc. If you have backups of your /var/cache/apt/archives/ > directory, you may be able to find a .deb package file for a > downlevel release. But in my case I run "aptitude clean" after > each upgrade to free disk space. If I were running grup-pc and > testing, and a migration of a grub-pc package from sid to testing > caused my system to be unbootable, I don't know where I would even > be able to *find* a downlevel .deb package to install from, especially > if it had been more than a few days between the migration from sid > to testing and when I ran my upgrade. By then, all the mirrors would > have updated. All the more reason to install apt-listbugs on any testing or sid system. There's also the fact that breakage like this *should* prevent the package from migrating to testing in the first place. As far as I know the version of grub2 in testing is still 1.98~20100115-1 which works fine. Cheers, Tom -- QOTD: "Who? Me? No, no, NO!! But I do sell rugs."
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