How to downgrade packages recursively?

2000-10-27 Thread Krzys Majewski
Can I use apt to downgrade packages? How? For example, I set my sources to point to unstable because I wanted libsdl1.1, but apt-getting libsdl1.1 resulted in a libc6 upgrade that broke some other stuff. The only way I could find to downgrade libc6 (and all the other packages that were

How to downgrade packages recursively?

2000-10-27 Thread Krzys Majewski
Can I use apt to downgrade packages? How? For example, I set my sources to point to unstable because I wanted libsdl1.1, but apt-getting libsdl1.1 resulted in a libc6 upgrade that broke some other stuff. The only way I could find to downgrade libc6 (and all the other packages that were

Re: How to downgrade packages recursively?

2000-10-27 Thread Colin Watson
Krzys Majewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I use apt to downgrade packages? Nope. There's a long-standing wishlist bug against apt to allow you to do this: see URL:http://bugs.debian.org/33468. Trying to resolve all the dependencies in reverse would probably be mind-bogglingly complex to do