--Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Wednesday, 11 September 2002, 03:53 PM +0200): > On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 15:23, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > so my big question of the > > day is: how do I downgrade from unstable to testing? I know I can > > "simply" change my apt.sources list to point at testing, but since most > > of the software I have installed is of a newer version than sarge, won't > > it simply keep telling me I already have the latest version? > > I also started out with mostly everything from unstable, and I never did > downgrade, but I just waited for the packages to trickle down to > testing. > > As downgrades are often not properly supported, you'll probably want to > do the same (or remove unstable sources alltogether), unless some > packages are really broken. As long as it works, I would not actively > downgrade any packages. Unfortunately, some of the packages no longer work -- and as I need to _use_ the machine, I need a certain degree of stability. I also need to have a machine a little more on "the bleeding edge" than woody.
> I have to set up my preferences file to prefer testing/updates with > priority 750, and normally use just testing with 700. (this assumes > you've read man apt_preferences). I've read apt_preferences, and here are the contents of my /etc/apt/preferences file: Package: * Pin: release v=3.*,a=testing,c=*,o=*,l=Debian Pin-Priority: 1001 I have also changed my sources.list to point only at testing for the time being. When I do an apt-show-versions -u, however, no packages are returned (well, on the first try, 7 were, but they were actual upgrades to what I had... hmmm..). I suspect that either I have the Pin wrong, or that I need to bump the Pin-Priority even higher... Anybody have any ideas? --Matthew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
