Well, I do know tha packing system pretty well (I remember when apt  
was a pipe dream).

Just never needed to downgrade.  If anything I wouldnt recommended it  
as its not one of the "normal" things that people do, so the process  
won't be fully fleshed out and debugged.


On Jun 3, 2005, at 1:03 PM, der.hans wrote:

> Am 03. Jun, 2005 schwätzte Mike Garfias so:
>
>
>> I've never actually done a downgrade, so I don't know how that  
>> would work.
>>
>
> It works. I would suggest avoiding it unless you know debian really  
> well.
>
> Eventually everything will upgrade as new packages are added the  
> unstable
> and filter down to testing.
>
> Going from unstable to stable might have some issues.
>
> You can use pinning ( see the man page for apt_preference and my  
> cafod doc
> for more info ) and an apt-get with -u to see what would be  
> downgraded.
>
> I did a lot of this back when woody was coming out. It was pretty  
> hosed,
> for debian. I had to know quite a bit about the debian packaging  
> system to
> get unhosed. Since then many improvements have gone into apt and the
> pacakges, but I'd still recommend avoiding a downgrade.
>
> If you need to do one check with the list and maybe hop on the  
> debian IRC
> channel.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans

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