Re: How to back up from "sid" to "testing"?

2004-12-09 Thread Pedro M (Morphix User)
Rob Bochan escribió: On Friday 19 November 2004 02:14 pm, William Ballard wrote: Won't this be problematic? Sarge has different package names in it than Sid, and you may select something you really don't want to select or may miss something key. It seems like something you really need to eyeba

Re: How to back up from "sid" to "testing"?

2004-11-22 Thread Rob Bochan
On Friday 19 November 2004 02:06 pm, Christian Convey wrote: > Thanks, that's a great tip. > > What happens if some of those packages aren't available at all under > "testing"? Would the entire procedure fall on its face? Just those packages would fail to install. The rest of the process would c

Re: How to back up from "sid" to "testing"?

2004-11-22 Thread Christian Convey
Thanks, that's a great tip. What happens if some of those packages aren't available at all under "testing"? Would the entire procedure fall on its face? Rob Bochan wrote: On Friday 19 November 2004 12:56 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote: What's the most reasonable way to *downgrade* a system from sid to

Re: How to back up from "sid" to "testing"?

2004-11-19 Thread Rob Bochan
On Friday 19 November 2004 02:14 pm, William Ballard wrote: > Won't this be problematic? Sarge has different package names in it > than Sid, and you may select something you really don't want to select > or may miss something key. It seems like something you really need to > eyeball. I've had g

Re: How to back up from "sid" to "testing"?

2004-11-19 Thread William Ballard
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 01:34:45PM -0500, Rob Bochan wrote: > On Friday 19 November 2004 12:56 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > > > What's the most reasonable way to *downgrade* a system from sid to > > > testing? Do I need to suck it up and do a reinstall? > > > dpkg --get-selections > packages.dpkg

Re: How to back up from "sid" to "testing"?

2004-11-19 Thread Rob Bochan
On Friday 19 November 2004 12:56 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > What's the most reasonable way to *downgrade* a system from sid to > > testing? Do I need to suck it up and do a reinstall? > > That's pretty much it. :-/ If you do end up going that route, here's something you can do to at least ma

Re: How to back up from "sid" to "testing"?

2004-11-19 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Friday 19 November 2004 09:08, Christian Convey wrote: > Hey guys, > > I recently took a stab at upgrading my "testing" installation to "sid". > I've had some instability when logging out from KDE, so I've decided > I'd rather live with "testing". Did you upgrade your entire system or just se

How to back up from "sid" to "testing"?

2004-11-19 Thread Christian Convey
Hey guys, I recently took a stab at upgrading my "testing" installation to "sid". I've had some instability when logging out from KDE, so I've decided I'd rather live with "testing". What's the most reasonable way to *downgrade* a system from sid to testing? Do I need to suck it up and do a r