On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 02:24:45PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: > David Fokkema wrote: > >On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:22:57AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > > >>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >>Hash: SHA1 > >> > >>On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:16, Carl Fink wrote: > >> > >>>On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:13:37AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > >>> > >>>>A few weeks ago (I don't know about now), the KDE distribution in > >>>>unstable simply would not run ... > >>>> > >>>>How does one recover from something like this short of doing a reload? > >>> > >>>Don't run KDE for a week or so until it's fixed? Downgrade to the > >>>version in Testing, which will still work? > >>> > >>>I mean, you DO know how to do both of those things from the command > >>>line, right? And how to get to the command line when X won't work? > >>>Otherwise, really, you shouldn't use Unstable. > >> > >>Certainly I can turn off KDE; cripples KDevelop which is needed, but can > >>be done easily. As to downgrading, I've read answers to several questions > >>saying that can't be done with apt. Unless those answers were wrong, no, > >>I don't know how to - short of a reload. > > > > > >You can downgrade with apt, that's no problem at all! What you _can't_ > >do, is downgrading _all_ packages to the version numbers available in > >testing. If you downgrade, you have to specify things like > > > >apt-get install gs=7.07-1 > > > >Doing that for hundreds of packages is no fun. > > > > Not exactly, if you put: > > Package: * > Pin: release a=testing > Pin-Priority: 1001 > > in /etc/apt/preferences, and do an apt-get dist-upgrade, apt will > happily /try/ to downgrade every package to its testing > version[alternatively adding that to /etc/apt/preferences will let you > do apt-get install <testing-package> without needing the version > number]. It just isn't guaranteed to work, and isn't considered a bug > if it doesn't.
Wow! I didn't know that, thanks! So debian is even better than I thought, :-) But then, I don't want to downgrade, and indeed, it might still not work. David -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]