Rob Weir wrote: > Adam Funk said > > If I have problems with a package from unstable and want to revert to a > > lower-numbered version, how would I do so? > > You can't, generally. Often you can downgrade individual packages by > dpkg -i'ing them from /var/cache/apt/archives/ or playing apt pinning > games, but don't depend on being able to go back.
Agreed that going back is not to be counted on. But I wanted to say that I have used snapshot.debian.net effectively for that purpose. If you know what you are doing and can debug the problem to a version of a particular package then you can frequently find a previous working version of the package on snapshot.debian.net and then downgrade to it. With all of the caveats of downgrading. http://snapshot.debian.net I find snapshop to be very useful. Bob
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