Re: we've been hosed, Tommy

[Christian Jaeger]

Some ideas:

- Use apt pinning. /etc/apt/preferences man apt_preferences
i.e.
Packages: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 2000
Packages: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 900
Packages: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 400
then put all three of stable,testing and unstable resources into /etc/apt/sources.list, apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
should downgrade everything to stable (since 2000 is > 1000). At least it should help resolving all dependencies since every dependency should be found in sources.list.

- if apt/dpkg doen't work because of unresolved symbols: booting from an installer CD will get you a place from where to work. dpkg has options for giving the filesystem root. No idea if this works in that case. If not maybe copy over the libraries manually.

Christian.


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