hi. last week my boss saw something on linuxtoday and he installed 2.4.2 on a new server(not yet in production). now im going to downgrade it back to 2.2.xx. my Q is -- is it better to just remove the packages related to 2.4.2 and reinstall the 2.2. packages or is the dpkg --force-downgrade workable? i haven't checked which packages were updated and am uncertain(yet) as to if i can just remove them and replace them without breaking some things inbetween(maybe they are vital or something). i would be doing this over a network as the server is about 5000 miles away.
he got the packages from a recent post by someone who made an apt archive for 2.4. eventually i will use 2.4 but probably won't start testing it for another 3-6 months at the earliest. ideally i want to be able to remove all of the 2.4.x related packages, purge them and install 2.2.x related packages. even if the 2.4.x packages work with 2.2.x i'd much rather stick with potato's revs as i have no need for the 2.4.x specific stuff (and who knows maybe i will want to boot a 2.0.x kernel :/) thanks. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
