I'm using the priorities in /etc/apt/preferences to control the software base from which I'm updating my system. I had 'testing' set to the highest priority for a long time. But recently, I made the mistake of setting 'unstable' to be the highest priority, which meant that my daily upgrade runs from "aptitude" started bringing in a lot of 'sid' packages.
Well, needless to say, my system is now unstable, and now I'd like to back out all of these 'unstable' packages. The problem is that I'm not sure which packages I have upgraded to 'unstable', and which ones are still either 'stable' or 'testing' packages. What is the recommended way to do a mass downgrade so that all my 'unstable' packages get downgraded to 'testing' versions? I have already reset the priorities in /etc/apt/preferences so that 'testing' has the highest priority, 'stable' has the next highest, and 'unstable' has the lowest (my current /etc/apt/preferences listing follows). So now what should I do to perform the mass downgrade? I apologize if this question was answered here recently. One side effect of my newly created system instability is that I lost lots of my archived email messages, including many from this mailing list. Thanks in advance for any pointers and suggestions you can offer. Current /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 500 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 600 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 5 -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
