Re: Doing a mass downgrade

2003-01-19 Thread Dale Hair
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 22:46, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > > If your /etc/apt/preferences has > > > > Package: * > > Pin: release a=testing > > Pin-Priority: 1001 > > > > and unstable with a priority lower than 1000, then you must not have any > > packages from unstable. > > Well then, I guess I must hav

Re: Doing a mass downgrade

2003-01-19 Thread Dale Hair
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 05:30, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Checking my system, I don't have any /etc/apt/preferences file. What > script installs it? It seems to be a regular text file from what I read > in this thread. I am planing to downgrade one of my boxes from sid to > sarge, this seems to be

Re: Doing a mass downgrade

2003-01-19 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Checking my system, I don't have any /etc/apt/preferences file. What script installs it? It seems to be a regular text file from what I read in this thread. I am planing to downgrade one of my boxes from sid to sarge, this seems to be the way to go, but I don't know the exact configuration of t

Re: Doing a mass downgrade

2003-01-18 Thread Lloyd Zusman
Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 13:04, Lloyd Zusman wrote: >> >> [ ... ] >> >> I did this, but nothing happened. The command session is shown below. >> I know that a number of unstable packages had been previously installed. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Thanks. >> >>

Re: Doing a mass downgrade

2003-01-18 Thread Dale Hair
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 13:04, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 12:03, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > >> Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > [ ... ] > >> > > >> > Giving testing a priority of 1001 will downgrade to testing. > >> > >> Than

Re: Doing a mass downgrade

2003-01-18 Thread Lloyd Zusman
Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 12:03, Lloyd Zusman wrote: >> Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > [ ... ] >> > >> > Giving testing a priority of 1001 will downgrade to testing. >> >> Thank you. I just did that. And now, which `apt-get' or `aptitude' >> c

Re: Doing a mass downgrade

2003-01-18 Thread Dale Hair
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 12:03, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [ ... ] > > > > Giving testing a priority of 1001 will downgrade to testing. > > Thank you. I just did that. And now, which `apt-get' or `aptitude' > command(s) should I invoke to perform this downgra

Re: Doing a mass downgrade

2003-01-18 Thread Lloyd Zusman
Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ ... ] > > Giving testing a priority of 1001 will downgrade to testing. Thank you. I just did that. And now, which `apt-get' or `aptitude' command(s) should I invoke to perform this downgrade? When I go into `aptitude', I don't see anything obvious whic

Re: Doing a mass downgrade

2003-01-18 Thread Dale Hair
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 10:21, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > I'm using the priorities in /etc/apt/preferences to control the software > base from which I'm updating my system. I had 'testing' set to the > highest priority for a long time. But recently, I made the mistake of > setting 'unstable' to be the h

Doing a mass downgrade

2003-01-18 Thread Lloyd Zusman
I'm using the priorities in /etc/apt/preferences to control the software base from which I'm updating my system. I had 'testing' set to the highest priority for a long time. But recently, I made the mistake of setting 'unstable' to be the highest priority, which meant that my daily upgrade runs f