> If you can *find* it, yes. For example, if you are running "sid", and > a new upload breaks, you may be able to find an older version in > "testing" that still works. But if you are running "testing" and an > upload breaks, where are you going to find a down-level version that > you can install? The version in "stable" was probably compiled with > a back-level C compiler and may require a back-level C run-time > library, etc. If you have backups of your /var/cache/apt/archives/ > directory, you may be able to find a .deb package file for a > downlevel release. But in my case I run "aptitude clean" after > each upgrade to free disk space. If I were running grup-pc and > testing, and a migration of a grub-pc package from sid to testing > caused my system to be unbootable, I don't know where I would even > be able to *find* a downlevel .deb package to install from, especially so > if it had been more than a few days between the migration from sid > to testing and when I ran my upgrade. By then, all the mirrors would > have updated.
+1 In this case, I would back up sources.list, create a new, one-line sources.list pointing at the main section of testing, purge unstable's grub-common and grub-pc, apt-get update, install testing's grub-common and grub-pc, delete the temporary sources.list, reinstate the original sources.list, and apt-get update (and possibly pin grub-common and grub-pc until the next version so that are not upgraded at the next apt-get upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade). BTW, these are the 386 versions in the repositories: grub-common_1.98~20100115-1_i386.deb 15-Jan-2010 20:04 1.4M grub-common_1.98~20100128-1_i386.deb 28-Jan-2010 18:06 1.4M grub-pc_1.98~20100115-1_i386.deb 15-Jan-2010 20:04 809K grub-pc_1.98~20100128-1_i386.deb 28-Jan-2010 18:06 820K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
