proposed updates
I need to remove packages from proposed-updates. There were recently
some changes made to several x packages that I installed last night. I
wish I hadn't. Since upgrading, x has frozen nearly a half dozen times.
I can restart gdm and recover and I've tried rebooting, but the problem
still occurs. The problem has occured within just 5 minutes of
restarting gdm, and seems to happen when the system is idle for a few
minutes.
I followed instructions about using apt pinning to do this at:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=432636
I'm running wheezy (not ubuntu, so I changed all references of fiesty to
wheezy.
However none of the packages get removed nor any installed whether I use
aptitude or "apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade "
Thanks.
Here is the text from the link:
You can use APT pinning to accomplish this
(http://wiki.debian.org/AptPinning)
Create file /etc/apt/preferences with contents
Code:
Package: *
Pin: release a=feisty
Pin-Priority: 1001
Package: *
Pin: release a=feisty-updates
Pin-Priority: 1001
Package: *
Pin: release a=feisty-proposed
Pin-Priority: -10
Priority over 1000 allows downgrading. This should make apt believe that
packages from feisty and feisty-updates are newer.
To simulate
Code:
sudo aptitude -s upgrade
To perform the downgrade
Code:
sudo aptitude upgrade
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