Aaron Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What's the best way to downgrade from woody to potato? > > I've never done it, but I think just editing /etc/apt/sources.list to > point to 'potato' instead of 'woody', then 'apt-get dist-upgrade', will do > it. apt-get & friends just know that woody and potato are different > distributions; they don't know that one is more 'advanced' than the other. > YMMV. Aaron,
MMWY. Because the woody packages have the same or a higher version number, apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't install _any_ packages. I got a hint though: dpkg -i -E -O -R --force-downgrade path-to-potato-binary-i386 may do the job, but is of course dangerous. Hmm. -- Andre
