Re: Howto asses possible damage from downgrade Xorg
On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:00:35 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> Can anyone guide me on this, or is this the kind of thing I should
>>> install a vm guest for?
>>
>> Synaptic makes a good job when it comes to manage the versions of the
>> packages you want to install. You select the desired package you want
>> to downgrade and jump to the "Versions" tab for instructions.
>
> I must not have the screens you do. Starting synaptic and finding
> `xserver-xorg-core'
>
> For a moment there I was a bit stymied since there appears to be no
> `versions tab'.. but finally figured out I needed to press `properties'
> first.
Sorry, I must have tweaked the layout the first time I installed Debian
and left that way. Did not remember it was not the default setting.
> But the only version shown is 2:1.11.1-1
So you have no previous package version installed?
> Somebody posted what that notation means earlier but not finding the
> info now... what does the `2' indicate?
Debian Policy Manual explains better:
5.6.12 Version
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Version
>>> Is there a page that just has 1 massive list?
>>
>> See above. Not a "just-one-massive" list though, but a "per package"
>> version comparison.
>
> Thanks for the excellent help and URLs.
>
> xserver-xorg 1:7.6+9
> xwerver-xorg-core 2:1.11
>
> I think it is the `core' pkg that is referred to on the xorg list when
> the speak of the Xorg version.
>
> aptitude show xserver-xorg says:
>
> This package depends on the full suite of the server and drivers for
> the X.Org X server. It does not provide the actual server itself.
>
> Why so confusing... the name is xserver-xorg and yet it is not the
> server?
Xorg (upstream project) latest stable version is 7.6 (this one matches
with the "xserver-xorg" package). But that's all I can tell for these two
packages, I don't know why there exits both given that xorg server
binaries are only provided by "xserver-xorg-core".
> Oh, and what does `stable-bpo' mean at:
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xorg-server.html
"-bpo" tag indicates a package is from the "backports" repositories:
http://backports-master.debian.org/
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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