On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 09:51:42AM -0400, Rich Johnson wrote: > > On Jul 15, 2006, at 5:53 AM, Dave Ewart wrote: > > >On Saturday, 15.07.2006 at 01:00 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >> > >>That is not exactly supported. Especially since there are *huge* > >>differences between stable and unstable. Gnome has been upgraded > >>twice, > >>XFree86 was replaced by X.org. Those two alone would be enough to > >>scare > >>me off. Your best bet is to reinstall. If you kept /home on a > >>sepearate partition from the beginning, this should be relatively > >>trivial to accomplish without losing many settings. > > > >I'd second this advice. Re-install, don't even *try* to downgrade... > > I agree as well. > > Though it has been possible in the past, at the current time that > ''not exactly supported'' is at best a rather gracious euphemism. > I tried to go from testing->stable the other day with disastrous > results. Things really got wedged when apt-get/dpkg objected to > removing some files shared by debian-utils and some other package > whose name escapes me. > > I gave up and reinstalled from scratch.
That's gotta be the best way to do it. Otherwise I think you'd want to basically purge everything but the most basic install, then downgrade, then reinstall everything that you purged. might as well reinstall from scratch. Though, I think it would be fun to try ;) A
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