Re: Debian Downgrade question

2006-01-22 Thread James Strandboge
On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 21:17 -0800, Bill MacAllister wrote: > Jamie, > > Thanks very much for this. It when mostly as planned. There were two > problems that I hit. > This is why downgrades aren't officially supported. But you found your way, so good. :) > The only question that I have at th

Re: Debian Downgrade question

2006-01-22 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 09:17:14PM -0800, Bill MacAllister wrote: > Jamie, ... > > The only question that I have at this point is should I remove the > preferences from /etc/apt? I don't really understand what I did here. Can > you point me to a document that describes what you suggested? >

Re: Debian Downgrade question

2006-01-21 Thread Bill MacAllister
Jamie, Thanks very much for this. It when mostly as planned. There were two problems that I hit. 1. There was a problem downgrading passwd---the error message said there was a problem over writing /usr/sbin/add-shell. The error report indicated that passwd as also in debianutils

Re: Debian Downgrade question

2006-01-20 Thread James Strandboge
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 16:35 -0800, Bill MacAllister wrote: > Hello, > > On one of the debian systems I manage I installed sarge before it was moved > to stable by referening testing in my sources.list. I completely forgot > about this and recently issued an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade. The

Re: Debian Downgrade question

2006-01-20 Thread Allan Wind
On 2006-01-20T16:35:44-0800, Bill MacAllister wrote: > I would like to revert to the stable tree at this point. Downgrades are not supported, so you are on your own. > What will happen if I just modify the sources.list and issue an > apt-get update; apt-get upgrade at this point? Possible nothin

Debian Downgrade question

2006-01-20 Thread Bill MacAllister
Hello, On one of the debian systems I manage I installed sarge before it was moved to stable by referening testing in my sources.list. I completely forgot about this and recently issued an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade. The system continues to work, but has trouble booting now. I would li