On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 10:21, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > I'm using the priorities in /etc/apt/preferences to control the software > base from which I'm updating my system. I had 'testing' set to the > highest priority for a long time. But recently, I made the mistake of > setting 'unstable' to be the highest priority, which meant that my daily > upgrade runs from "aptitude" started bringing in a lot of 'sid' > packages. > > Well, needless to say, my system is now unstable, and now I'd like to > back out all of these 'unstable' packages. The problem is that I'm not > sure which packages I have upgraded to 'unstable', and which ones are > still either 'stable' or 'testing' packages. > > What is the recommended way to do a mass downgrade so that all my > 'unstable' packages get downgraded to 'testing' versions? I have > already reset the priorities in /etc/apt/preferences so that 'testing' > has the highest priority, 'stable' has the next highest, and 'unstable' > has the lowest (my current /etc/apt/preferences listing follows). > > So now what should I do to perform the mass downgrade? > > I apologize if this question was answered here recently. One side > effect of my newly created system instability is that I lost lots of my > archived email messages, including many from this mailing list. > > Thanks in advance for any pointers and suggestions you can offer. > > > Current /etc/apt/preferences > > Package: * > Pin: release a=stable > Pin-Priority: 500 > > Package: * > Pin: release a=testing > Pin-Priority: 600 > > Package: * > Pin: release a=unstable > Pin-Priority: 5 > > -- > Lloyd Zusman > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Giving testing a priority of 1001 will downgrade to testing. -- Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
