how to downgrade a suite of packages?

2007-06-14 Thread Ross Boylan
I recently caught the X upgrade in testing and discovered that none of the available drivers would work. I've since fixed that, but it got me wondering what a good way to dowgrade all of X was. The advice I've found on the list gave methods that were good for downgrading a package, or the whole

Re: how to downgrade a suite of packages?

2007-06-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 05:25:17PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: [...] The advice I've found on the list gave methods that were good for downgrading a package, or the whole system, but seem awkward with a whole set of packages (I realize with enough time I could write a script that would get

Re: how to downgrade a suite of packages?

2007-06-14 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 19:08 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 05:25:17PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: [...] The advice I've found on the list gave methods that were good for downgrading a package, or the whole system, but seem awkward with a whole set of