Hi, I'm back to debian after a couple of years with Redhat/Mandrake. What triggered the change was the possibility to upgrade certain packages, without having a to perform a full reinstall. Anyway, here is my question:
How do I safely revert to a previous status. To be specific: I installed a few packages from the unstable branch, which required upgrading certain others. I now want to go back: deinstall these "unstable" packages, and downgrade the others. I know precisely which status I want (say /var/lib/dpkg/status.yesterday.3.gz). So I imagined to replace /var/lib/dpkg/status with this uncompressed file. Then dselect shows only my old selections, but it completely forgot what was really installed. So I suppose this is really a dangerous point to start with. Any help very welcome! On a similar tone: is there a way to undo the selection process in dselect. I suppose I am not the only one to have lost the opportunity to scan through "new" packages, by hitting return one time too much. All in all, an undo function would be very reassuring. Looking back, this is what really makes me nervous when I start dselect (together with those bloody messages that are lost forever after a couple of screens...). -- Amities, Jean Orloff +++++++++ + + + + + + + ++++++ + Tel:(33)473.40.72.27 Fax: (33)473.26.45.98 + +++++++++ + + + + + + + ++++++ Entendu à la radio le 6 octobre 1997: "Un conseiller régional, André Isoardo, a été retrouvé mort par balles... Le corps présentait trois traces de balles : une dans le ventre, une autre dans la région du coeur et une mortelle dans la bouche... L'enquête favorise la thèse du suicide." +++++++++ + + + + + + + ++++++