Re: Doing a mass downgrade

[Antonio Rodriguez]

Checking my system, I don't have any /etc/apt/preferences file. What script installs it? It seems to be a regular text file from what I read in this thread. I am planing to downgrade one of my boxes from sid to sarge, this seems to be the way to go, but I don't know the exact configuration of this mentioned "preference"
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Dale Hair wrote:

On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 13:04, Lloyd Zusman wrote:

Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 12:03, Lloyd Zusman wrote:

Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

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Giving testing a priority of 1001 will downgrade to testing.

Thank you. I just did that. And now, which `apt-get' or `aptitude'
command(s) should I invoke to perform this downgrade?

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apt-get dist-upgrade

I did this, but nothing happened. The command session is shown below.
I know that a number of unstable packages had been previously installed.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.


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Lloyd Zusman
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If your /etc/apt/preferences has

Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 1001

and unstable with a priority lower than 1000, then you must not have any
packages from unstable.

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