On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 02:51:12PM -0400, Josh Kuperman wrote: > I am baffled by some odd behavior, which seem to have started after I > upgraded to the frozen/potato dist of debian-sparc. I have no reason
Such as? A few examples and someone else may have encountered the same thing. > to believe that the distribution itself is responsible for any of the > particulars, but I'd like to check. Is there an easy way to check. > > I have ideas, but I suspect they are all bad ideas. > > 1. Install an old version on a different disk/partition. (I have spare > disks and partitions - I'm just not sure how to do this.) Another option is to install it in a chroot environment. I believe that is how a few other developer hadnle developing for slink, potato and woody. > 2. resinstall slink from CDs and upgrade again. repeat as > needed. sounds like too much work. Yup > 3. change the /etc/apt/sources.list to the previous version. I don't > believe this sufficient and even it was I suspect I'd be wasting lots > of bandwidth. No it won't be. Plus if you use dselect you'll get it confused as to what should be installed (from memory). Anand