On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 18:48:04 +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote: > macondo writes:
[...] > I have a couple of partitions and will try an etch install later on, > but I do not want to lose my working sid system... Well I can always > clone it to another partition and try to downgrade it to etch. > > > Before you install from scratch, try this, it worked for me: > > http://bertgarcia.com/2006/10/03/giga-meet-etch > > That's about the way I thought it should work. Why is the pinning needed? A package pin > 1000 tells apt that it is OK to downgrade packages in order to install the pinned version (see the section "How APT Interprets Priorities" from "man apt_preferences"). -- Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
