On Tuesday, February 25, 2003 11:45 am, David Gaudine wrote: > I use woody, and I have a few packages that came from an early > version of sid. For these packages, dselect always shows me that the > installed version is the same as the available version. For example, my > openssl and libssl packages show as installed version and available > version 0.9.6d-1. (Woody has 0.9.6c-2, sid has 0.9.7a-1). I do know how > to downgrade individual packages, and have already downgraded these > two. However, how can I find and downgrade all other packages where the > installed version has a higher version number than the one in woody but > is actually older? > > Here's how the problem happened: When potato was stable I wanted to use > woody so I specified "unstable" in sources.list. Then, when woody became > stable, I changed sources.list to specify "stable". The problem is, I > made the change too late, so I picked up a some packages from sid. > > David
you could create an /etc/apt/preferences file with the following entry: Package: * Pin: release o=Debian,a=stable Pin-Priority: 1001 Then do an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade or dist-upgrade (or your usual update method). This preferences file tells apt to give all packages of Debian origin (o=Debian) from the stable distribution (a=stable) a priority of 1001. From my understanding, the default priority is 500, but a priority > 1000 is necessary to get apt to downgrade a package. This should downgrade any remaining unstable packages to stable. man apt_preferences for more info. Josh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
