Anyone ever tried a downgrade?

2011-03-07 Thread Toni S
Hi folks, I have lenny running on a headless virtual server being hosted by a small hosting provider and now I'd like to upgrade to squeeze. The box does not serve any commercial purpose, but it does handle a portion of my private email traffic. So I'd like the system not being down for more than

Re: Anyone ever tried a downgrade?

2011-03-07 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 08:42:27 -0800, Toni S wrote: > I have lenny running on a headless virtual server being hosted by a > small hosting provider and now I'd like to upgrade to squeeze. The box > does not serve any commercial purpose, but it does handle a portion of > my private email traffic. So I

Re: Anyone ever tried a downgrade?

2011-03-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-03-07 10:42:27 Toni S wrote: >Hi folks, > >I have lenny running on a headless virtual server being hosted by a >small hosting provider and now I'd like to upgrade to squeeze. > >In case of any service failures after doing 'sudo aptitude safe- >upgrade' I'd like to know some methods to smoot

Re: Anyone ever tried a downgrade?

2011-03-07 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
Op Mon, 7 Mar 2011 17:23:36 + (UTC) Camaleón schreef: > > If disk space is not a concern, I'd go for a parallel installation. > In the event something goes wrong with the new install (or upgrade, > if you made a full image of the currently installed system), you only > have to boot with the

Re: Anyone ever tried a downgrade?

2011-03-07 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:22:43 +0100, Jens Van Broeckhoven wrote: > Op Mon, 7 Mar 2011 17:23:36 + (UTC) Camaleón schreef: > > >> If disk space is not a concern, I'd go for a parallel installation. In >> the event something goes wrong with the new install (or upgrade, if you >> made a full imag

Re: Anyone ever tried a downgrade?

2011-03-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 07 mar 11, 08:42:27, Toni S wrote: > > - Using undo mechanism of aptitude (how does this work?) AFAICT aptitude's undo is only for package selections. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-of