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On Saturday 19 March 2005 6:33 pm, Grant Sewell wrote:
Hi all. Something I've been meaning to ask for a while now... is it possible to *downgrade* a Debian setup?
Yes. Just use --dist-upgrade testing or --dist-upgrade stable.
If so, is it as easy as upgrading?
It's necessarily confusing syntax, but it is a LOT easier because there are far fewer package changes, if any at all. Certainly going from unstable to testing is simple - I haven't tried testing to stable.
Let me explain a little... I have the proper Debian netinst boot CD for Testing. I have so-far upgraded 3 machines quite effortlessly from Testing to Unstable. It would appear that there are no official netinst boot CDs for Stable, and as of yet I haven't tried the unofficial ones. So, is it fairly straightforward to "downgrade" from Testing to Stable? Or will it cause more problems than it's worth?
I don't think the process will actually replace the current packages and downgrade the versions - at least not for the majority. In essence, you'll have a testing system that will wait for stable to catch up. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.dcglug.org.uk/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/isbnsearch/ http://www.neil.williamsleesmill.me.uk/ http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x8801094A28BCB3E3
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