Re: downgrading from unstable to testing

2002-09-12 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 07:49:08AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > If I want to live my debian life in the middle with 'testing', should I > create a preferences file? If I don't, and just put entries for testing > at the top of my sources list, does that mean the apt-get function w

Re: downgrading from unstable to testing

2002-09-12 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 10:26:45AM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote.. > > My preferences file is: > === > Package: * > Pin: release l=Debian-Security > Pin-Priority: 750 > > Package: * > Pin: release a=testing > Pin-Priority: 700 > > Package: * > Pin: release a=stable >

Re: downgrading from unstable to testing

2002-09-12 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 02:51, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > --Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Wednesday, 11 September 2002, 03:53 PM +0200): [...] > > As downgrades are often not properly supported, you'll probably want to > > do the same (or remove unstable

Re: downgrading from unstable to testing

2002-09-11 Thread Jeff Maxson
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 08:08:38AM -0700, Peter Sharp happened to mention: > Matthew wrote: > > , so my big question of theday is: how do I > > downgrade from unstable to testing? I know I > > can"simply" change my apt.sources list to point at > > testing, but since mostof the software I have

Re: downgrading from unstable to testing

2002-09-11 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
--Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Wednesday, 11 September 2002, 03:53 PM +0200): > On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 15:23, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > so my big question of the > > day is: how do I downgrade from unstable to testing? I know I can > > "simply" change

Re: downgrading from unstable to testing

2002-09-11 Thread Peter Sharp
Matthew wrote: > , so my big question of theday is: how do I > downgrade from unstable to testing? I know I > can"simply" change my apt.sources list to point at > testing, but since mostof the software I have > installed is of a newer version than sarge, won'tit > simply keep telling me I alr