It looks ok, but I've met a rather critial obstacle here. Dselect is to be REMOVED and is marked as "Obsolete". What should I do? How is it possible - woody has dselect too!! Thanks for any help!!
Dave On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 12:23:40PM -0400, Chris Caldwell wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dave Lister sent the following message Today: > > DL> Hi guys, > DL> I'm using sarge for quite a while now, but I'm having > DL> inconveniencies with the maintenance compared to peaceful > DL> and quiet woods of woody. I'd like to downgrade back to > DL> stable. Is there any clean way of getting this done, > DL> without any stuff remaining on my drive unreferenced? > DL> I'd like to have clean woody back again ;) > DL> > DL> Thanks, > DL> Dave > > Your /etc/apt/preferences should look something like this: > > Package: * > Pin: release a=stable > Pin-Priority: 1001 > > Package: * > Pin: release a=testing > Pin-Priority: 900 > > > I've had good luck doing this, but your mileage may vary. After > the downgrade you may want to install deborphan to remove > unreferenced libraries, etc. Certain packages have been > problematic in the past (dpkg).
