On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Dieter Tremel wrote: > Hello debian-user, > > unfortunaltely I did a dist-upgrade to woody leading to testing. > (in sources.list testing was written from earlyer times). :-( > > with Pinning I wanted do downgrade to stable, but at dpkg > it stops: > > Preconfiguring packages ... > dpkg - warning: downgrading dpkg from 1.10.4 to 1.9.21. > (Reading database ... 49494 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace dpkg 1.10.4 (using .../archives/dpkg_1.9.21_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement dpkg ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.9.21_i386.deb > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg', which is also in package dselect > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.9.21_i386.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > How is it going on? Thank You for help!
Downgrades are not supported.
