On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 03:25, A. L. Meyers wrote: > Thanks for the inputs, everyone. Now I've become really scared. Could > someone please post or point me to some verbose examples of > /etc/apt/preferences files? :-) > > BTW it would seem to me that apt developers should make downgrading just > as simple as upgrading. > /etc/apt/preferences should look something like this.
Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 1001 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 900 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 400 I used this successfully before, but I tried about 2 months ago to downgrade from unstable to stable and dpkg did not want to downgrade dpkg. I tried many things without success and ended up downgrading to testing.
