On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 03:23:56AM +0000, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > Anyway, this brings up the question, how do I revert to an older version > of a package? A friend pointed out that I can just dpkg -i > whatever.deb, where whatever is the older version, but I still have > questions: > > 1) Where do I find this older version? In this case it should be the > version that was available on unstable right up until a few hours ago.
http://snapshot.debian.net/ will have it. > 2) What does debian do about the dependencies? In most cases, will > having newer libraries be okay, or do I need to replace just about > everything? With the odd exception, newer libraries will usually be OK. > 3) The python 2.3.1-1 package depends on the python 2.3 package depends > on the python package. How am I to understand these dependencies? > Could I just remove the 2.3.1-1 package and still somehow have python > running? I don't get what you mean here. Could you explain in more detail? > 4) If I do revert, how do I tell dselect (or apt-get or whatever) not to > upgrade, and how do I know when the newer version is available? Press '=' on the package in dselect, or 'echo PACKAGE-NAME hold | dpkg --set-selections'. dselect will show you the held package among the packages with newer versions available, and you can unhold ('+' in dselect) when you think the available version fixes the bug. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
