Nate Amsden wrote: > Rob Torop wrote: > > > > I upgraded from potato to woody (by changing sources.list and doing an > > update then dist-upgrade). Now I want to go back! I replaced "testing" > > with "stable" in sources.list, but I can't figure out what to do now to > > get it to revert everything to potato. Can someone advise me? > > maybe someone should make apt-get print out a big warning saying once > you do a dist-upgrade you can't go back.. everytime ive seen this question > asked(im not a testing/woody user or a sid/unstable user) the answer has > always been no. apparently a new version of apt in unstable may be able > to downgrade, but i dont think it would work unless you upgraded > originally using that version of apt .. > > in short looks like u gotta reinstall if u want potato back..unless > u want to grab a list of your installed packages and try to do > a buncha dpkg -i --force-overwrite's but that is probably dangerous. > > nate
I just found this http://groups.google.com/groups?q=debian++downgrade&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rnum=4&seld=918198586&ic=1 In a nutshell it says that with apt-get > 0.5, one can create /etc/apt/preferences looking like this: Package: * Pin: release a=potato Pin-Priority: 1001 Then apt-get dist-upgrade will do a downgrade (with lots of warnings...). Or so it would seem. I haven't tried it yet...
