Re: [solved] testing MATE upgrade broke panels, downgrading fixed it

2024-06-06 Thread songbird
songbird wrote: > > as an FYI, last night this wasn't a good idea: > > The following packages will be upgraded: >gir1.2-matepanelapplet-4.0 (1.27.1-2+b2 => 1.27.1-3) >libmate-panel-applet-4-1 (1.27.1-2+b2 => 1.27.1-3) >libmate-panel-applet-dev (1.27.1-2+b2 => 1.27.1-3) >mate-panel

testing MATE upgrade broke panels, downgrading fixed it

2024-05-26 Thread songbird
as an FYI, last night this wasn't a good idea: The following packages will be upgraded: gir1.2-matepanelapplet-4.0 (1.27.1-2+b2 => 1.27.1-3) libmate-panel-applet-4-1 (1.27.1-2+b2 => 1.27.1-3) libmate-panel-applet-dev (1.27.1-2+b2 => 1.27.1-3) mate-panel (1.27.1-2+b2 => 1.27.1-3)

Re: prevent apt from downgrading packages

2019-03-01 Thread Felix Rubio Dalmau
On divendres, 1 de març de 2019 10:45:48 CET Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > On 01.03.2019 13:27, Felix Rubio wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have mix stable+testing (~1200 packages from stable, ~20 > > packages from testing). I have the following contents in > > /etc/apt/preferences.d/pinning: >

Re: prevent apt from downgrading packages

2019-03-01 Thread Andrea Borgia
Il 01/03/19 11:18, Alexander V. Makartsev ha scritto: This is something you have to decide for yourself and deal with unforeseen consequences. If you actually *build* packages from "stable" on "testing" system, using dependencies for building also from "testing" then it should be ok compatibil

Re: prevent apt from downgrading packages

2019-03-01 Thread Dan Ritter
ith apt list --upgradable, and I get only those that will be upgraded. > However, when I run apt upgrade, I get a number of packages that will be > downgraded. How can I prevent this downgrading from happening? here are magic levels for the numbers in the priority field. They are explained, at len

Re: prevent apt from downgrading packages

2019-03-01 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 01.03.2019 15:07, Andrea Borgia wrote: > > Il giorno ven 1 mar 2019 alle ore 10:46 Alexander V. Makartsev > mailto:avbe...@gmail.com>> ha scritto: > > On 01.03.2019 13:27, Felix Rubio wrote: >>     I have mix stable+testing (~1200 packages from stable, ~20 >> packages from testing).

Re: prevent apt from downgrading packages

2019-03-01 Thread john doe
On 3/1/2019 11:07 AM, Andrea Borgia wrote: > Il giorno ven 1 mar 2019 alle ore 10:46 Alexander V. Makartsev < > avbe...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > >> On 01.03.2019 13:27, Felix Rubio wrote: >> >> I have mix stable+testing (~1200 packages from stable, ~20 packages >> from testing). I have the foll

Re: prevent apt from downgrading packages

2019-03-01 Thread Andrea Borgia
Il giorno ven 1 mar 2019 alle ore 10:46 Alexander V. Makartsev < avbe...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > On 01.03.2019 13:27, Felix Rubio wrote: > > I have mix stable+testing (~1200 packages from stable, ~20 packages > from testing). I have the following contents in > /etc/apt/preferences.d/pinning:

Re: prevent apt from downgrading packages

2019-03-01 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 01.03.2019 13:27, Felix Rubio wrote: > Hi all, > >     I have mix stable+testing (~1200 packages from stable, ~20 > packages from testing). I have the following contents in > /etc/apt/preferences.d/pinning: > This is something you should not do in first place. [1] The right and safe way to run s

prevent apt from downgrading packages

2019-03-01 Thread Felix Rubio
will be downgraded. How can I prevent this downgrading from happening? Thank you! Felix

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-11 Thread solitone
On Sunday, 11 June 2017 20:06:48 CEST Brian wrote: > if you change your sources.list to use a suitable > one from snapshot.debian.org it will be found. I didn't know that, thanks!

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-11 Thread Brian
ecause you were asking how to do it with apt > > Yes, I see, and in fact apt would be my preferred tool, if downgrading were > possible with it. The incentive to invetigate the suggestion above is probably minimal because you have solved your issue. -- Brian.

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-11 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 11-06-2017 05:06, solitone wrote: > But where do you find old packages in case you no longer > have them in /var/cache/apt/archives? http://snapshot.debian.org/ -- A rolling disk gathers no MOS. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-11 Thread solitone
oesn't find that. > I've suggested it only because you were asking how to do it with apt Yes, I see, and in fact apt would be my preferred tool, if downgrading were possible with it. Thanks!

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-11 Thread Fungi4All
UTC Time: June 11, 2017 7:39 AM From: lisi.re...@gmail.com On Sunday 11 June 2017 08:16:11 Fungi4All wrote: > Below please find Lisi's answer on whether packages should be reverted or > not. !! There is nothing there - not surprising since I have never passed an opinion on any such thing. Does th

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-11 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 11-06-17, solitone wrote: > On Sunday, 11 June 2017 08:39:25 CEST Lisi Reisz wrote: > > please, Solitone, let me and the list know what I am supposed to have said. > > No Lisi, I don't have more info than the list regarding what you supposedly > said on this > topic :-) > > In any case, I'

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-11 Thread solitone
On Sunday, 11 June 2017 08:39:25 CEST Lisi Reisz wrote: > please, Solitone, let me and the list know what I am supposed to have said. No Lisi, I don't have more info than the list regarding what you supposedly said on this topic :-) In any case, I've just removed the hold on the 4 chromium pa

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 11 June 2017 08:16:11 Fungi4All wrote: > Below please find Lisi's answer on whether packages should be reverted or > not. !! There is nothing there - not surprising since I have never passed an opinion on any such thing. Does the version that went directly to solitone have a complete

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-11 Thread Fungi4All
With all the confusion on reply reply-all I has send her/him this UTC Time: June 10, 2017 10:06 AM From: fungil...@protonmail.com To: solitone UTC Time: June 10, 2017 9:55 AM From: solit...@mail.com On Saturday, 10 June 2017 05:45:22 CEST Fungi4All wrote: > apt > > Hold a package: > sudo apt-ma

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
d thanks for your reply. I'm under Plasma Desktop, so I don't > have synaptic--I use KDE's Discover. Although I use it only for automatic > updates. For installing/removing packages, as well as setting a package on > hold, I use apt. I'd rather use apt for downgradi

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-10 Thread Hans
Hi, I made best progress by using aptitude. However, you have to look at the dependencies yourself. How to handle: - Start aptitude with ncurses gui. - Mark the required to the former available version. - Look at the dependencies, you my have to set the dependend libs also to former versions

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-10 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 10-06-17, solitone wrote: > On Saturday, 10 June 2017 05:45:22 CEST Fungi4All wrote: > > apt > > > > Hold a package: > > sudo apt-mark hold > > > > Remove the hold: > > sudo apt-mark unhold > > That's ok. I can then: > $ sudo apt upgrade > to upgrade that package to the latest available v

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-10 Thread solitone
--- Begin Message --- UTC Time: June 10, 2017 9:55 AM From: solit...@mail.com On Saturday, 10 June 2017 05:45:22 CEST Fungi4All wrote: > apt > > Hold a package: > sudo apt-mark hold > > Remove the hold: > sudo apt-mark unhold That's ok. I can then: $ sudo apt upgrade to upgrade that package to

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-10 Thread solitone
On Saturday, 10 June 2017 05:45:22 CEST Fungi4All wrote: > apt > > Hold a package: > sudo apt-mark hold > > Remove the hold: > sudo apt-mark unhold That's ok. I can then: $ sudo apt upgrade to upgrade that package to the latest available version. But my question was: once I've upgrated it,

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-10 Thread Fungi4All
c--I use KDE's Discover. Although I use it only for automatic updates. For installing/removing packages, as well as setting a package on hold, I use apt. I'd rather use apt for downgrading as well. dpkg Put a package on hold: echo " hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections Remove t

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-10 Thread solitone
for automatic updates. For installing/removing packages, as well as setting a package on hold, I use apt. I'd rather use apt for downgrading as well. Cheers!

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-09 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 06/09/2017 09:44 PM, solitone wrote: I am on Debian 9 (scratch), and I have a MacBook Pro 12,1 with retina display. Few days ago I upgraded Google Chrome from version 58 to 59: google-chrome-stable:amd64 (58.0.3029.110-1, 59.0.3071.86-1) This new version no longer supports HiDPI. As a result

Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-09 Thread solitone
I am on Debian 9 (scratch), and I have a MacBook Pro 12,1 with retina display. Few days ago I upgraded Google Chrome from version 58 to 59: google-chrome-stable:amd64 (58.0.3029.110-1, 59.0.3071.86-1) This new version no longer supports HiDPI. As a result everything in Chrome is so small that I w

Re: Difficulty downgrading a mistakenly installed non-stable package

2015-04-24 Thread Kynn Jones
On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Brian wrote: > On Fri 24 Apr 2015 at 12:37:36 -0400, Kynn Jones wrote: > >> I try to keep my system as close to 100% stable as possible. In spite >> of this, a version of libp11-kit0 that is ahead of stable "somehow" >> snuck into my system: >> >> $ apt-cache

Re: Difficulty downgrading a mistakenly installed non-stable package

2015-04-24 Thread Bob Proulx
n goes like this: > > emacs24-lucid depends on libgnutls-deb0-28 (>= 3.3.0) depends on > libp11-kit0 (>= 0.20.7) There you go! It wasn't "somehow". It was installed as an explicit installation by you when you installed it from backports. Everything makes perfect sen

Re: Difficulty downgrading a mistakenly installed non-stable package

2015-04-24 Thread Brian
On Fri 24 Apr 2015 at 18:50:30 +0100, Brian wrote: > Bug makes interesting reading; especially when it contains #764982 in case anyone was wondering, :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.o

Re: Difficulty downgrading a mistakenly installed non-stable package

2015-04-24 Thread Brian
On Fri 24 Apr 2015 at 12:37:36 -0400, Kynn Jones wrote: > I try to keep my system as close to 100% stable as possible. In spite > of this, a version of libp11-kit0 that is ahead of stable "somehow" > snuck into my system: > > $ apt-cache policy libp11-kit0 > libp11-kit0: > Installe

Re: Difficulty downgrading a mistakenly installed non-stable package

2015-04-24 Thread Bob Proulx
0 > 500 http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/ stable/main amd64 Packages > 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable/main amd64 Packages >... > How can I downgrade this libp11-kit0? The usual way is to specify the explicit version number. apt-get install libp11-kit0=0.12-3 Up

Difficulty downgrading a mistakenly installed non-stable package

2015-04-24 Thread Kynn Jones
I try to keep my system as close to 100% stable as possible. In spite of this, a version of libp11-kit0 that is ahead of stable "somehow" snuck into my system: $ apt-cache policy libp11-kit0 libp11-kit0: Installed: 0.20.7-1~bpo70+1 Candidate: 0.20.7-1~bpo70+1 Version tab

Re: downgrading a virtualbox guest

2014-06-19 Thread berenger . morel
Le 16.06.2014 20:54, Linux-Fan a écrit : On 06/16/2014 03:42 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Hello. I made some virtual computers with my desktop computer, which runs a ( mostly ) Debian testing. Now, I have noticed that even with virtualbox's backports, the computer on which I wan

Re: downgrading a virtualbox guest

2014-06-16 Thread Linux-Fan
On 06/16/2014 03:42 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Hello. > > I made some virtual computers with my desktop computer, which runs a ( > mostly ) Debian testing. Now, I have noticed that even with virtualbox's > backports, the computer on which I want to finally use them ( I was too > la

downgrading a virtualbox guest

2014-06-16 Thread berenger . morel
Hello. I made some virtual computers with my desktop computer, which runs a ( mostly ) Debian testing. Now, I have noticed that even with virtualbox's backports, the computer on which I want to finally use them ( I was too lazy to want to learn how to correctly create VMs from command-line ) i

Re: Downgrading packages (gthumb)

2014-03-23 Thread Patrick Bartek
tried enabling wheezy repos (I'm on jessie/testing), > but it still only gives me the horrible new version. > > Thanks for any help you can give! Instead of downgrading, try Geeqie instead. That's what I did when gthumb was "improved." It's not as versatile as gthu

Re: Downgrading packages (gthumb)

2014-03-23 Thread Frank McCormick
On 23/03/14 05:24 PM, quixote wrote: *How* did you do the downgrade? I downloaded gthumb_3.2.6-1_amd64.deb, tried to install with gdebi, and got the error message: Dependency is not satisfiable: gthumb-data (= 3:3.2.6-1) So I downloaded that, put it in the same dir, and got the same error messa

Re: Re: Downgrading packages (gthumb)

2014-03-23 Thread quixote
*How* did you do the downgrade? I downloaded gthumb_3.2.6-1_amd64.deb, tried to install with gdebi, and got the error message: Dependency is not satisfiable: gthumb-data (= 3:3.2.6-1) So I downloaded that, put it in the same dir, and got the same error message. The new interface is the absol

Re: Downgrading packages

2014-03-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On 08/03/14 02:02 PM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Sat, 08 Mar 2014 13:52:23 -0500 Frank McCormick wrote: I would like to downgrade Gthumb to the previous version before the interface was changed. I am running Sid. I've looked around but the only version available seems to be the current one 3.3.1 P

Re: Downgrading packages

2014-03-08 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 08 Mar 2014 13:52:23 -0500 Frank McCormick wrote: > I would like to downgrade Gthumb to the previous version before > the interface was changed. I am running Sid. > I've looked around but the only version available seems to > be the current one 3.3.1 Please choose one of those: ht

Downgrading packages

2014-03-08 Thread Frank McCormick
I would like to downgrade Gthumb to the previous version before the interface was changed. I am running Sid. I've looked around but the only version available seems to be the current one 3.3.1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Downgrading?

2012-02-04 Thread Brad Alexander
can't for the life of me think, which exact command to use. > > No.  That operation is not supported.  It would be almost impossible > to test all of the cases.  And the need for doing so is much rarer. > Upgrading is a task that everyone needs, at least for security > upgra

Re: Downgrading? - What about Orca in wheezy?

2012-02-04 Thread Julien Claassen
Hello Andrei! Thanks, I'l definitely consider it. Much better than to go back. :-) Knd regards Julien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Such Is Life: Very Intensely Adorable; Free And Jubilating Amazement Revels, Dancing On - FLOWERS! == Find my music at == http://juliencod

Re: Downgrading? - What about Orca in wheezy?

2012-02-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 03 feb 12, 19:28:57, Bob Proulx wrote: > > It is still a long time until Wheezy releases. There is no indicate > one way or the other about whether gnome-orca will be in wheezy or > not. It is too early to tell. I think you should be patient and wait > and see. A lot can happen in a yea

Re: Downgrading? - What about Orca in wheezy?

2012-02-04 Thread Julien Claassen
Hi bob! I'm sorry, I see, that I wrote rather without context, besides I expressed myself unclearly. Yes, we are talking about Gnome-Orca. Why do I "have to upgrade"? The new Orca version has a lot of fixes for problems, which are there in the old version. These fixes will allow to use much

Re: Downgrading? - What about Orca in wheezy?

2012-02-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Julien Claassen wrote: > So let's talk about Orca. :-) Orca as in gnome-orca the screen reader? > I found, that Orca is no longer available in wheezy and an > installation of Squeeze's GNOME+Orca reulted in a lot of problems, > which I could understand before. Yes, problems. I don't know about

Re: Downgrading? - What about Orca in wheezy?

2012-02-03 Thread Julien Claassen
Hello! Thanks bob and Aidan! OK, I do understand now, why downgrading wouldn't be possible. So let's talk about Orca. :-) I found, that Orca is no longer available in wheezy and an installation of Squeeze's GNOME+Orca reulted in a lot of problems, which I could understan

Re: Downgrading?

2012-02-03 Thread Bob Proulx
ost impossible to test all of the cases. And the need for doing so is much rarer. Upgrading is a task that everyone needs, at least for security upgrades. But downgrading is uncommon. An individual project package might downgrade just fine. But taking the entire system back would be very

Re: Downgrading?

2012-02-03 Thread Aidan Gauland
I seem to remember asking this on IRC a while ago, and the answer I got (from multiple people) was to backup system config files and, of course, /home, and do a fresh install of stable. (In the end, I went with this method.) I am quite certain that downgrading from testing to stable is not

Downgrading?

2012-02-03 Thread Julien Claassen
Hello everyone! I just wondered, if it would be possible to downgrade my Debian distro from - say - Wheezy to Squeeze? I thought, that it must work, but I can't for the life of me think, which exact command to use. Thanks for any help! Warm regards Julien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: Some coaching on apt-get and downgrading Package gtk+-2.0

2011-08-04 Thread Randy Kramer
On Thursday 04 August 2011 03:52:49 pm Walter Hurry wrote: > On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:46:44 +, Walter Hurry wrote: > > Short answer: Because when you are running ./configure and see a > > message saying "Package xyz was not found in the pkg-config search > > path", it usually means (in Debian) th

Re: Some coaching on apt-get and downgrading Package gtk+-2.0

2011-08-04 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:46:44 +, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:33:49 -0400, Randy Kramer wrote: > >> Eduardo, >> >> Thanks, that worked perfectly, but, how did you know that, especially >> so quickly? >> >> Randy Kramer >> >> On Thursday 04 August 2011 08:52:24 am Eduardo M K

Re: Some coaching on apt-get and downgrading Package gtk+-2.0

2011-08-04 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:33:49 -0400, Randy Kramer wrote: > Eduardo, > > Thanks, that worked perfectly, but, how did you know that, especially so > quickly? > > Randy Kramer > > On Thursday 04 August 2011 08:52:24 am Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >> On Qui, 04 Ago 2011, Randy Kramer wrote: >> > Yes

Re: Some coaching on apt-get and downgrading Package gtk+-2.0

2011-08-04 Thread Randy Kramer
Eduardo, Thanks, that worked perfectly, but, how did you know that, especially so quickly? Randy Kramer On Thursday 04 August 2011 08:52:24 am Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Qui, 04 Ago 2011, Randy Kramer wrote: > > Yesterday, my build started failing with messages like this: > > > > "Packag

Re: Some coaching on apt-get and downgrading Package gtk+-2.0

2011-08-04 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Qui, 04 Ago 2011, Randy Kramer wrote: Yesterday, my build started failing with messages like this: "Package gtk+-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-2.0.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'gtk+-2.0' fou

Some coaching on apt-get and downgrading Package gtk+-2.0

2011-08-04 Thread Randy Kramer
To get to the point quicker, skip over the "Background:" down to "My question / problem:" Background: I'm not really a C or C++ programmer, but I've been working on a program (well, an addition to an existing program--a lexer for Scintilla for the Foswiki/ TWiki markup language) and "limping a

Re: Downgrading Udev

2011-04-12 Thread Wayne Topa
On 04/12/2011 03:32 PM, Andrej Kacian wrote: On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 22:03:36 -0400 Johan Kullstam wrote: Apologies for following up to myself, but I thought I should say that when I added /run myself the 2.6.38 kernel booted without problems. So... is this udev167-1 safe to upgrade to on Wheezy

Re: Downgrading Udev

2011-04-12 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 22:03:36 -0400 Johan Kullstam wrote: >>>Apologies for following up to myself, but I thought I should say that >>>when I added /run myself the 2.6.38 kernel booted without problems. >> >> So... is this udev167-1 safe to upgrade to on Wheezy (base-files 6.1), or >> should I w

Re: Downgrading Udev

2011-04-10 Thread Johan Kullstam
Andrej Kacian writes: > On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 11:44:17 +0100 > Anthony Campbell wrote: > >>On 08 Apr 2011, Anthony Campbell wrote: >>> >>> After an upgrade today to base-files 6.3 I rashly assume things would be >>> fixed, but not so. My /run is no longer there but now the 2.6.38 kernels >>> won't

Re: Downgrading Udev

2011-04-10 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 11:44:17 +0100 Anthony Campbell wrote: >On 08 Apr 2011, Anthony Campbell wrote: >> >> After an upgrade today to base-files 6.3 I rashly assume things would be >> fixed, but not so. My /run is no longer there but now the 2.6.38 kernels >> won't boot - they stop at the nouveau d

Re: Downgrading Udev

2011-04-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 08 Apr 2011, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > After an upgrade today to base-files 6.3 I rashly assume things would be > fixed, but not so. My /run is no longer there but now the 2.6.38 kernels > won't boot - they stop at the nouveau driver. Luckily I still had a > 2.6.37 kernel which isn't affected

Re: Downgrading Udev

2011-04-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 06 Apr 2011, Benjamí Villoslada wrote: > A Dimecres 06 Abril 2011 16:30:08, Wolodja Wentland va escriure: > > I assume that you are actually trying to fix a different bug, namely one > > introduced by the premature installation of base-files 6.2 which created > > the /run directory. The fastest

Re: Downgrading Udev

2011-04-06 Thread Roger Leigh
n.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=621087 > > > > > > Where can I find and download the previous 166 version? > > > > http://snapshot.debian.org/package/udev/166-1/ > > > > Note that downgrading base-files (which removes /run) will > > also do the same

Re: Downgrading Udev

2011-04-06 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
A Dimecres 06 Abril 2011 16:30:08, Wolodja Wentland va escriure: > I assume that you are actually trying to fix a different bug, namely one > introduced by the premature installation of base-files 6.2 which created > the /run directory. The fastest fix is probably to just remove /run and be > done

Re: Downgrading Udev

2011-04-06 Thread Wolodja Wentland
ad the previous 166 version? > > http://snapshot.debian.org/package/udev/166-1/ > > Note that downgrading base-files (which removes /run) will > also do the same job: > > http://snapshot.debian.org/package/base-files/6.1/ Just downgrading base-files to 6.1 did unfortunately

Re: Downgrading Udev

2011-04-06 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 16:13 +0200, Benjamí Villoslada wrote: > Last Udev version have an important error: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=621087 > > Where can I find and download the previous 166 version? You can get them from: http://snapshot.debian.org/package/udev/166-1/

Re: Downgrading Udev

2011-04-06 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 04:20:24PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-04-06 16:13 +0200, Benjamí Villoslada wrote: > > > Last Udev version have an important error: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=621087 > > > > Where can I find and download the previous 166 version? > > On

Re: Downgrading Udev

2011-04-06 Thread Roger Leigh
/ Note that downgrading base-files (which removes /run) will also do the same job: http://snapshot.debian.org/package/base-files/6.1/ Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' P

Re: Downgrading Udev

2011-04-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-04-06 16:13 +0200, Benjamí Villoslada wrote: > Last Udev version have an important error: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=621087 > > Where can I find and download the previous 166 version? On snapshot.debian.org. Alternatively, you can rm -rf /run and restart udev. Sv

Downgrading Udev

2011-04-06 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
Last Udev version have an important error: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=621087 Where can I find and download the previous 166 version? Thanks! Regards, -- Benjamí http://blog.bitassa.cat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: Downgrading packages (with dependencies)

2010-11-17 Thread Lukas Linhart
On Tuesday 16 of November 2010 22:31:20 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <201011161438.54964.jesus.nava...@undominio.net>, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: > >Downgrade shouldn't be considered as an "upgrade, only to a lower version" > > That is what a downgrade is, by definition. In my case, this whoul

Re: Downgrading packages (with dependencies)

2010-11-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <201011161438.54964.jesus.nava...@undominio.net>, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: >Hi, Boyd: > >On Monday 15 November 2010 20:55:58 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In <201011151334.06503.lukas.linh...@centrumholdings.com>, Lukas Linhart > >[...] > >> Downgrades aren't supported and can't reasonably be

Re: Downgrading packages (with dependencies)

2010-11-16 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Boyd: On Monday 15 November 2010 20:55:58 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <201011151334.06503.lukas.linh...@centrumholdings.com>, Lukas Linhart [...] > Downgrades aren't supported and can't reasonably be supported in general. > Specifically, it is impossible to modify the lower-versioned p

RE: Downgrading packages (with dependencies)

2010-11-16 Thread Linhart Lukas
> Then I'm afraid you'll receive more advice in "debian-devel" :-) Oh, I'll perhaps try. Thanks. > I find the concept interesting. > First, because I was not aware that a metapackage could be "itself" up/ > downgraded :-? "metapackage"is usial package, not virtual package. > Second, because if

Re: Downgrading packages (with dependencies)

2010-11-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <201011151334.06503.lukas.linh...@centrumholdings.com>, Lukas Linhart wrote: >Problem is, we'd like to be able to downgrade. However. I did not found the >option to "force download in dependency chain"; when metapackage is being >downgraded, all dependencies forced to download must be specified

Re: Downgrading packages (with dependencies)

2010-11-15 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:34:06 +0100, Lukas Linhart wrote: > we're building packages with concept of "metapackage": package whose > only purpose is to specify particular versions it depends on. Then I'm afraid you'll receive more advice in "debian-devel" :-) > Problem is, we'd like to be able to d

Re: Downgrading packages (with dependencies)

2010-11-15 Thread Bob Proulx
systematic testing or requirement that they operate correctly on downgrades. Some do and some don't. For example packages may convert configuration files forward from old formats to new formats. But I don't know of any that convert new formats to old formats when downgrading. Therefore apt an

Downgrading packages (with dependencies)

2010-11-15 Thread Lukas Linhart
Hi, we're building packages with concept of "metapackage": package whose only purpose is to specify particular versions it depends on. Problem is, we'd like to be able to downgrade. However. I did not found the option to "force download in dependency chain"; when metapackage is being downgrade

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-02-01 Thread Andreas
Matteo Riva schrieb: > Squeeze upgrade broke fglrx driver with the new xserver. > > How can I downgrade the xserver from 1.7.4 back to 1.6.5 when fglrx > driver was working fine? > What packages do I need to downgrade, and where can I find those > versions? > > Hi all! I have two questions reg

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-02-01 Thread Andreas Tepe
Matteo Riva schrieb: > Squeeze upgrade broke fglrx driver with the new xserver. > > How can I downgrade the xserver from 1.7.4 back to 1.6.5 when fglrx > driver was working fine? > What packages do I need to downgrade, and where can I find those > versions? > > Hi all! I have two questions reg

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-02-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Matteo Riva wrote: Squeeze upgrade broke fglrx driver with the new xserver. How can I downgrade the xserver from 1.7.4 back to 1.6.5 when fglrx driver was working fine? What packages do I need to downgrade, and where can I find those versions? 1.7 is a major headache for me: http://bugs.debi

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-02-01 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 11:25 +0100, Matteo Riva wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:40 AM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com > wrote: > > Thanks! I had looked at the log but I guess I missed the error line > mentioning dri module not being loaded do to an error. > > Installing the firmware-linux package

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-01-31 Thread Matteo Riva
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:40 AM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > A good starting point would be to look at your /var/log/Xorg.0.log for > errors (EE) and warnings (WW). Nowadays X his supposed to handle dri or > compositing alone, but sometime it helps to show him the way. On the > contrary by

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-01-31 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
Matteo Riva wrote: > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Wolodja Wentland > wrote: > >> I use the radeonhd driver and am very happy with its performance. I ran >> into the same behaviour you described some time ago and fixed it by using EXA >> as acceleration method. The applicable part from my xor

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-01-30 Thread Matteo Riva
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > I use the radeonhd driver and am very happy with its performance. I ran > into the same behaviour you described some time ago and fixed it by using EXA > as acceleration method. The applicable part from my xorg.conf is: > > --- snip ---

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-01-30 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:04 +0100, Matteo Riva wrote: > 2010/1/30 Johan Grönqvist : > > Have you tried both the radeon and the radeonhd > Yes I have tried both drivers and couldn't see any appreciable > difference. I use the radeonhd driver and am very happy with its performance. I ran into th

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-01-30 Thread Matteo Riva
2010/1/30 Johan Grönqvist : > Have you tried both the radeon and the radeonhd >  drivers? As I understand it, they should be similar in feature set, but I > had issues (slow scrolling, among others) with the radeon driver that I do > not experience with the radeonhd driver. Yes I have tried both

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-01-30 Thread Johan Grönqvist
Matteo Riva skrev: Yes I am using the free driver now but the performance is poor. Actually I get a strange behavior: Have you tried both the radeon and the radeonhd drivers? As I understand it, they should be similar in feature set, but I had issues (slow scrolling, among others) with the

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-01-30 Thread Matteo Riva
e a new driver, maybe this one will finally catch > up with xorg and kernel development (for now...). > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzkzMQ I hope it will be a fast release. I know that downgrading can be a real pain, and I honestly don't even know where to find

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-01-30 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
Stefaan Himpe wrote: > >> I found snapshot.debian.net but it seems its last update was on 2008 or >> am I looking in the wrong place > Sorry I should have checked before pointing you there. > Make sure to backup any important files (like configuration stuff in /etc) > before you start to fiddle wi

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-01-29 Thread Stefaan Himpe
I found snapshot.debian.net but it seems its last update was on 2008 or am I looking in the wrong place Sorry I should have checked before pointing you there. Make sure to backup any important files (like configuration stuff in /etc) before you start to fiddle with these things. Disclaimer: I'

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-01-29 Thread Matteo Riva
tem (until I did a dist-upgrade when the nvidia driver was fixed). > > For downgrading, I simply used the previous version of the packages, as > found in my /var/cache/apt/archives folder. > > If you cannot find the packages there, you can try to search them via > http://snaps

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-01-29 Thread Stefaan Himpe
downgrading, I simply used the previous version of the packages, as found in my /var/cache/apt/archives folder. If you cannot find the packages there, you can try to search them via http://snapshot.debian.net/ hth, Stefaan. What packages do I need to downgrade, and where can I find those

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-01-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 29 January 2010 09:51:02 Matteo Riva wrote: > Squeeze upgrade broke fglrx driver with the new xserver. > > How can I downgrade the xserver from 1.7.4 back to 1.6.5 when fglrx > driver was working fine? > What packages do I need to downgrade, and where can I find those > versions? Packag

Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-01-29 Thread Matteo Riva
Squeeze upgrade broke fglrx driver with the new xserver. How can I downgrade the xserver from 1.7.4 back to 1.6.5 when fglrx driver was working fine? What packages do I need to downgrade, and where can I find those versions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: downgrading a single package

2008-10-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:31:10AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: > Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Fri,24.Oct.08, 17:33:01, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > > these previous package =EF=AC=81les locally in /var/cache/apt/archives/ or > > > remotely at http: > > > //snapshot.debian.net/. See also

Re: downgrading a single package

2008-10-27 Thread s. keeling
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri,24.Oct.08, 17:33:01, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > these previous package =EF=AC=81les locally in /var/cache/apt/archives/ or > > remotely at http: > > //snapshot.debian.net/. See also 'Rescue using dpkg' on page 12. > > Does anybody else see ligatures

Re: downgrading a single package

2008-10-26 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 4:24 AM, T o n g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:33:45 -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > >>> I was experiencing with an unstable package, now I'd like to >>> downgrade this package... > >>> $ apt-cache policy nfs-common >>> nfs-common: >>> Installed:

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