-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 03 October 2002 20:42, Douglas Hoen wrote: > I want to downgrade an arbitrary set of packages to lower versions, en > masse _without manual intervention_. I have a repository containing a > complete set of packages that I want to install onto any system, forcing > downgrades if necessary. (All dependent packages are contained in the > repository.) > > Is there some way to do this? For instance, is there some way to instruct > the policy engine when doing a dist-upgrade to perform automatic downgrades > of particular packages by using pin priorities? > > BTW, I have tried using various apt-get install and dist-upgrade > combinations without success. For instance, I have tried to make a > meta-package listing the specific verstions that I want, but "apt-get > install <meta-package>" fails with an error listing unmet dependencies for > versions that require downgrading. (The actual error message is: "Sorry, > but the following packages have unmet dependencies: <meta-package>: > Depends: <sub-package> (= <version-listed-in-meta>) but > <installed-newer-version> is to be installed".)
Read apt_preferences(5). If you set the preferences file /etc/apt/preferences to give your local packages/local server a priority of >1000 (1010, say), then apt will install those packages even if it has to downgrade from the currently installed packages. Paul Cupis - -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9nKcNIzuKV+SHX/kRAk1mAJ96rHby2fczLL5bVwA+II2+chDe8ACfXhIs RjqStfV90EjTbNI/K0oyhlA= =J7jX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
