Rick Macdonald wrote:
George Bonser wrote:
On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote:
This is something that I've always wondered about. Can you actually tell
dselect about both stable and unstable at the same time? I've always
been afraid to do that.
Yes, you can do that.
On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 06:21:39PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
You can not do it in dselect. Just ftp the package to your system and use
dpkg like this:
dpkg --install --force-downgrade package.deb
I just do this:
dpkg --install package.deb
It gives a warning about downgrading to a
I have been experiencing some problems due to my carelessly mixing
releases. In order to fix the problem I would like to bring my system
back to a state where only Stable components from my Debian 2.0 cd
are on it, so that everything works correctly. And I can move forward
from there if I choose.
On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 09:17:52PM -0500, Tommy wrote:
I have been experiencing some problems due to my carelessly mixing
releases. In order to fix the problem I would like to bring my system
back to a state where only Stable components from my Debian 2.0 cd
are on it, so that everything
Stephen Pitts wrote:
You don't. Downgrading packages has undefined results. A better option would
be to
tell the list about your problems and we'll help you fix them
--
Currently dselect marks 90% of the package on my system as broken. And
there are a lot of them. I tried switching to
Tommy wrote:
When I upgraded the package lists of
stable, unstable, contrib, and non-free dselect ...
This is something that I've always wondered about. Can you actually tell
dselect about both stable and unstable at the same time? I've always
been afraid to do that.
--
...RickM...
On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 10:42:23PM -0500, Tommy wrote:
Stephen Pitts wrote:
You don't. Downgrading packages has undefined results. A better option
would be to
tell the list about your problems and we'll help you fix them
--
Currently dselect marks 90% of the package on my system
On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 08:01:43PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote:
This is something that I've always wondered about. Can you actually tell
dselect about both stable and unstable at the same time? I've always
been afraid to do that.
Yes, you can do
I have been following your thread you have my
sympathy. I'm too ignorant to have any ideas or
suggestions. Your problems sound like mine except on a
bigger scale. The Debian people keep claiming that dpkg
dselect are so great but in my experience they are at best
medium in practice.
George Bonser wrote:
On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote:
This is something that I've always wondered about. Can you actually tell
dselect about both stable and unstable at the same time? I've always
been afraid to do that.
Yes, you can do that. Just make sure you go in the
George Bonser wrote:
On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote:
Does it merge stable and unstable and just show the newest version of
each package,
Yes.
or keep them separate so I can choose?
No
Hmmm, that doesn't seem much different than if you just define unstable,
except for
Marshall Savage wrote:
I have been following your thread you have my
sympathy. I'm too ignorant to have any ideas or
suggestions. Your problems sound like mine except on a
bigger scale. The Debian people keep claiming that dpkg
dselect are so great but in my experience they are at best
George Bonser wrote:
On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote:
Hmmm, that doesn't seem much different than if you just define unstable,
except for packages that are only in one or the other. The intersection
of stable and unstable would just be the same as unstable anyway. Right?
For
Stephen Pitts wrote:
On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 09:17:52PM -0500, Tommy wrote:
I have been experiencing some problems due to my carelessly mixing
releases. In order to fix the problem I would like to bring my system
back to a state where only Stable components from my Debian 2.0 cd
are on
Rick Macdonald wrote:
Tommy wrote:
When I upgraded the package lists of
stable, unstable, contrib, and non-free dselect ...
This is something that I've always wondered about. Can you actually tell
dselect about both stable and unstable at the same time? I've always
been afraid to do
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