On 06/28/2017 12:04 PM, KatolaZ wrote: > Hi All, > > as you know, there was a glitch in amprolla this morning, and by > mistake ascii got merged on Debian Buster, the new Debian testing > branch. This means that the users who apt-get updated/upgraded (or > used aptitute update/upgrade) in the last 24 hours might have gotten > some packages from what is effectively Devuan unstable. > > Please notice that only users using Devuan Ascii could be affected by > the glitch, and only those who upgraded their system in the last 24 > hours. Devuan Jessie and Devuan Ceres are fine. > > The issue has now been resolved, mostly thanks to the prompt action of > Centurion Dan and Nextime, and to the new version of amprolla coded by > parazyd and Wizzup, which is able to produce a new merged tree in much > less time than the current production system. > > We apologise for any inconvenience caused, but as said by jaromil, > this is the first time that we witness a Debian switch from testing to > stable on our merged repos. We have learned a lot from this incident, > and we thank you all for your patience. > > For those whose Ascii system was erroneously upgraded with packages > from the new Debian testing, please keep reading since it is possible > to downgrade your system to use actual ascii packages. The trick > consists into introducing a temporary pin of ascii to 1001, then > apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade, and then remove the pin. > > In other words: > > 1) create the file /etc/apt/preferences/ascii-pin containing the > following three lines: How do you make a file there especially if preferences is either missing or named differently?
aka, /etc/apt/preferences the below is therefore difficult unless someone tells me how to fix it... > > Package: * > Pin: release n=ascii > Pin-Priority: 1001 > > 2) # apt-get update > > 3) # apt-get dist-upgrade > (this should remove all the newly upgraded packages) > > 4) remove /etc/apt/preferences/ascii-pin > > If you still experience issues, please get in touch via IRC on #devuan > or #devuan-dev (freenet) _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
