RE: how to downgrade a package and set it to hold in dselect ?

2001-10-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 18-Oct-2001 tim haegele wrote: hello all topic says all... I like to downgrade binutils from version 2.11.92.0.5-3 to 2.11.92.0.5-2 . How can I do this? Can it be done using dselect? you need to find the deb for the older version and install it with dpkg. Once this is done

Re: how to downgrade a package and set it to hold in dselect ?

2001-10-18 Thread Craig Dickson
tim haegele wrote: I like to downgrade binutils from version 2.11.92.0.5-3 to 2.11.92.0.5-2 . How can I do this? Can it be done using dselect? Not that I know of. Hopefully you still have your binutils_2.11.92.0.5-2_i386.deb file in /var/cache/apt/archives. If so, you can just use dpkg

Re: how to downgrade a package and set it to hold in dselect ?

2001-10-18 Thread Craig Dickson
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: dselect will only show you the latest version of a package. In fact the version you want may no longer exist. Which is why /var/cache/apt/archives is your friend. I wrote a script to run through that directory and delete all but the most recent two versions of all