On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 08:12:38PM +0000, Steve Kemp wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 03:05:56PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote: > > > All he had to do was install an older version of libc6 and every other > > package > > would have been happy. All the infrastructure is there to do this, the old > > packages are all on the ftp/http sites, the package may even be sitting in > > apt's cache. But there's no interface for it. > > Sure there is, 'dpkg --install $foo.deb'. Doesn't that do exactly the > correct thing, even at the expense of downgrading?
So its possible.. it isn't easy, intuitive or flexible. I suppose he could grab the pristine tarball too. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/