Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 12:22, Lloyd Zusman wrote: >> Simon Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 06:15:53PM +0200, Mohammed Sameer wrote: >> >> >> >> [ ... ] >> >> >> >> here's my /etc/apt/preferences >> >> >> >> Package: * >> >> Pin: release a=stable >> >> Pin-Priority: 1001 >> >> >> >> and /etc/apt/apt.conf >> >> >> >> APT::Default-Release "stable"; >> > >> > Make sure you have stable in your sources.list. Take out >> > APT::Default-Release "stable";. Then "apt-get update && apt-get -t >> > stable dist-upgrade". You should see it downgrade. >> > >> > Simon >> >> [ ... ] > > I just tried exactly what Mohammed said he did and my testing/unstable > machine wanted to remove 176 packages and downgrade 586 to stable. I > also tried it with apt.conf set to testing with the same results. The > preferences file seems to have priority over the apt.conf file.
Something is strange on my system. I did the same thing, except I wanted to downgrade from a mixed testing+unstable system to a pure testing system. I followed the same steps as above, except replacing the string 'stable' with 'testing'. Nevertheless, nothing got downgraded (see below for details). I know that I previously installed perl-5.8.0 from the 'unstable' distribution, and that it is my default perl interpreter (I can tell by running "perl -V"). But the following did not do anything, and after these steps, I was still using perl-5.8.0 instead of perl-5.6.1 from 'testing' ... contents of /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 1001 /etc/apt/apt.conf was completely deleted Then ... apt-get update && apt-get -t testing dist-upgrade My output (after proper output from the "apt-get update" portion): Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. So no downgrade (nor anything else) took place. Does anyone know what else might be affecting this, besides the contents of /etc/apt/apt.conf and /etc/apt/preferences? -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
