On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 14:24 -0400, Frédéric Brière wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 11:14:21AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > so the importance should be raised to grave! A temporary workaround is > > to install module-init-tools-3.3-pre11-1 from testing after the failure > > to install module-init-tools-3.3-pre11-3 and automatic removal of > > Marco has previously stated that downgrading of m-i-t is not supported. > Feel free to look at #428953 and #429572 to get a taste of the joys that > await if you step on that road
So what to to then? What is the problem with downgrading? dpkg --status module-init-tools and dpkg --status modutils does look OK for me! > I haven't looked closely at pre11-3's pre/postrm, but you might be okay > if you were to remove pre11-3 (using --force if necessary) before > installing pre11-1. All these bugs are caused by one version installing > a diversion over another version's files; as long as each version > cleanly wipes all its stuff upon removal, doing a remove/install instead > of up/downgrading should be safe. > >
