Dear all How would I roll back system upgrades? I am using Debian testing and after I hit "Reload package info" in Synaptic, it will download the package versions that are current in the testing tree, and will completely forget the old tree (which after the update will be dubbed as "now"). If I perform an upgrade of a package, say a critical one, fglrx (video card) or broadcom (wifi), and the new version comes with an incompatibility that breaks my system, I currently see no way to revert to the old ("now") tree, the old versions where the packages worked just fine.
In other words, if you update the package info and upgrade some packages that come with breakages, you're doomed to start hunting for a fix (in my case, this morning, without X and without internet). In the old times with Gentoo, breakages occurred more often than needed, but it was quite easy to revert an upgrade: each tree---stable and testing---usually contained several, similar versions of the package (much closer than in Lenny and Squeeze). That meant that whenever something went wrong after a package upgrade, I simply reverted to a previous minor version, got on with my work and waited for a new version to pop up. To get back to my original question, is there an easy way in Debian, with aptitude or Synaptic, to revert to the old tree after the "package info was reloaded" (or "aptitude was updated")? Thank you Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org