Ralf M. wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Stupid question for debian users here: is there an easy way to
> "downgrade" a distro from testing/sarge to stable/woody?
>
> The reason I ask is that a couple of weeks ago I performed a
> dist-upgrade on the Mac G3 running stable/woody. It was working just
> fine but I needed some packaged that were only available in testing &
> unstable and the libc6 package was not compatible. So I went for testing
> by changing the apt-preferences and performed a dist-upgrade.
>
> Bad idea. Now the mac will randomly look dead when I try to access it in
> the morning -- no network access, nothing interactive session... I looks
> kind of random too, sometime it's up for a couple of days, sometimes
> more, sometimes less. I can't figure what is the source of the problem.
>
> So I'd like to revert the packages to stable/woody. I changed
> apt-preferences (pinned down testing) and did a dist-upgrade (dry run)
> and apt-get just tells me everything's fine, I have the latest
> packages... Hmmm not what I want. I could try removing all source.list
> entries but the stable one maybe? My guess is apt-get will still tell me
> I have the latest packages of everything. I don't feel like reinstalling
> the whole system from scratch nor using apt-get to downgrade each
> package individually.
>
> Ideas welcome.
> R/
>
>
>
>
To downgrade all packages to stable, edit /etc/apt/preferences as follows:
Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 1001
and run "apt-get upgrade", which forces downgrade due to Pin-priority >
1000. Be warned, there may be some small glitches in dependencies.
groetjes,
Rintek
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