Re: Downgrade to Stable

2018-09-04 Thread songbird
Dan Ritter wrote: ... > This is not supported. Upgrades work in one direction. > > However, if you want to try: > > http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/downgrade.html that is a very ancient cite and the many caveats in there make me think that it is a huge waste of time for an actual system that's

Re: Downgrade to Stable

2018-09-04 Thread songbird
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi all... > > A few days ago I downgraded my Debian installation from Sid to Stable by > changing, in /etc/apt/sources list, all occurrences of `unstable' to `stable' > in: > > -- > deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/

Re: Downgrade to Stable

2018-09-04 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2018-09-04 12:31:03 +0200, Pétùr wrote: > As suggested by the link of Dan Ritter, you can change the behavior for > apt and force the installation of a selected version of packages (ie > stable). However, I do not recommend this. For example, there is no > guarantee the configuration of packages

Re: Downgrade to Stable

2018-09-04 Thread Pétùr
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 10:23:08AM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> A few days ago I downgraded my Debian installation from Sid to Stable by >> changing, in /etc/apt/sources list, all occurrences of `unstable' to `stable' [... >> But still, at log in in tty console, there is: >> >> Debian GNU/Lin

Re: Downgrade to Stable

2018-09-04 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 10:23:08AM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi all... > > A few days ago I downgraded my Debian installation from Sid to Stable by > changing, in /etc/apt/sources list, all occurrences of `unstable' to `stable' > in: > > --

Re: Downgrade to Stable

2018-09-04 Thread Kevin DAGNEAUX
Hi, Le 04/09/2018 à 10:23, Rodolfo Medina a écrit : Hi all... A few days ago I downgraded my Debian installation from Sid to Stable by changing, in /etc/apt/sources list, all occurrences of `unstable' to `stable' in: -- deb http:/

Re: downgrade to stable

2004-03-30 Thread Richard Hector
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 07:21:28PM +0300, Costas Magkos wrote: > I think I will keep the current installation, > following your advice ;-) . If you're doing that, it might pay to make sure your sources.list points at 'sarge' rather than 'testing', to avoid an inadvertent upgrade to sarge+1 in th

Re: downgrade to stable

2004-03-29 Thread Costas Magkos
Hi Clive, My only concern was the release schedule of sarge. Since this will be a production server, I would prefer to run a stable debian release. Well, I was more than happy to read Colin's latest posting on debian-devel-announce. I think I will keep the current installation, following your

Re: downgrade to stable

2004-03-29 Thread Clive Menzies
On (29/03/04 16:54), Costas Magkos wrote: > > Hi debian people, > > Is there a way to downgrade to stable, after having apt-get dist-upgrade > to testing? > > ~kmag > > P.S. people of debian-user please CC me. > > Costas Magkos Hi Unless you really know what you are doing this is not advised

Re: downgrade to stable

2004-03-29 Thread Costas Magkos
I have tried this before writing to the list. I changed the sources.list file to point only to the stable sources and I did an apt-get update. But I got: # apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installe