On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Eneko Lacunza wrote:
Hi all,
First of all, thanks a lot to everyone involved in this port. I just bought a new destop PC and migrated my old PC data (mostly evolution stuff) successfully and without problems from a Fedora Core 3 i386 :)
Too bad I discovered http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64 testing main points to unstable :)
Is a downgrade to http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/debian-pure64 testing main supposed to work?
I did it a couple of weeks ago. It ought to work, unless you have installed some weird selection of packages. If you don't have one, create a /etc/apt/preferences file, and add stanzas like this:
Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 1002
Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 1001
Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 99
Then modify your sources to point to http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/debian-pure64 testing
Then do
apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade
This will tell you it needs to download a heck of a lot of packages, which will be downgraded, and possibly will also tell you that a few packages will be removed because their dependencies cannot be met with packages in sarge. If those packages are not crucial, go ahead. I suggest to avoid doing the upgrade via dselect, since apparently is worse at resolving strange circular dependency problems. Be careful, though: while such a downgrade will work ok at the moment because sarge and sid are not all that different, it will become more difficult when they start to diverge, perhaps using very different infrastructure packages like different libc or perl or python (just possible examples) releases, or core utilities are split in packages with different names (as happened when coreutils was introduced).
Good luck, have fun Giacomo Mulas
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