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

2002-09-12 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 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 will

downgrading from unstable to testing

2002-09-11 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
I've been tracking unstable for about 9 months now, and for the most part I've been just fine. However, in the last two months, I've had a number of issues -- the libpng2 - libpng3 migration, new perl version, etc -- that have made it difficult for me to continue _using_ my computer while

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 cansimply 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 already

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 my

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 cansimply change my apt.sources list to point at testing, but since mostof the software I have