Re: Getting packages from stable again instead of unstable

2018-07-22 Thread john doe
On 7/21/2018 11:14 PM, Rick Macdonald wrote: On 19/07/18 12:19 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: I would do the downgrades. Then do an "apt-get clean", and after that, re-install firefox-esr. If you want an up-to-date firefox, install it directly from Mozilla in /opt/firefox. Thanks to Dan, Jochen and son

Re: Getting packages from stable again instead of unstable

2018-07-21 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 19/07/18 12:19 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: I would do the downgrades. Then do an "apt-get clean", and after that, re-install firefox-esr. If you want an up-to-date firefox, install it directly from Mozilla in /opt/firefox. Thanks to Dan, Jochen and songbird for the advice to do the downgrade. I b

Re: Getting packages from stable again instead of unstable

2018-07-19 Thread songbird
Rick Macdonald wrote: > I'm going to pose my question here at the top in case it can be answered > without wading through all the details that follow: > > Now that I have removed unstable form sources.list and preferences > (pinning), won't my packages from unstable eventually be upgraded from >

Re: Getting packages from stable again instead of unstable

2018-07-19 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 19/07/18 12:19 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: This isn't absolutely awful; you can recover from this. Here is the list of downgrades if I pin stable to 1001: The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:   fonts-stix libevent-2.1-6 libhunspell-1.6-0 libjsoncpp1 lib

Re: Getting packages from stable again instead of unstable

2018-07-19 Thread Jochen Spieker
Rick Macdonald: > > Now that I have removed unstable form sources.list and preferences > (pinning), won't my packages from unstable eventually be upgraded from > stable as the stable versions become newer than the unstable packages that I > currently have installed? Yes, "eventually". At some unk

Re: Getting packages from stable again instead of unstable

2018-07-19 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 10:43:51AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > I'm going to pose my question here at the top in case it can be answered > without wading through all the details that follow: > > Now that I have removed unstable form sources.list and preferences > (pinning), won't my packages fro

Getting packages from stable again instead of unstable

2018-07-19 Thread Rick Macdonald
I'm going to pose my question here at the top in case it can be answered without wading through all the details that follow: Now that I have removed unstable form sources.list and preferences (pinning), won't my packages from unstable eventually be upgraded from stable as the stable versions b