I don't thinthat'll work because the directory structure isn't correct, on a mirror you got /dists/<distro>/[main|contrib|non-free]/binary-i386/[base|admin|net|etc]/package.deb you don't have that with your downloaded packages, the best thing you can do is go to the downloaded .deb and do dpkg -i *.deb, you might need to add some force options, like the one to avoid version conflicts / dependencies, perl and libc6 might give problems, YOU SHOULD ONLY USE THOSE FORCES TO UPGRADE THOSE 2!! But I must agree with you that there should be some kind of way to easily downgrade using .debs on your system and apt-get, perhaps a feature that should be added to apt-get.... who maintains the package???
Ron Rademaker On Thu, 18 May 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Well, lets put the question in a more general manner: What steps should be > followed to > avoid this problem in the future? That is, is there any way of keeping the > downloaded > upgrade with the dependency structure and everything else, so that in case of > a problem > the system can be restored by: 1) Installing from CD, and subsequently 2) > Using the > downloaded upgrade? > My system was mesed up, the file system got all upside down after a few > unlucky > kernel-lilo changes. So I used the rescue floppy from slink and re-installed > from zero. > But I lost all the upgrade!!!! And it really sounds unlikely spending again > hours doing > it, especially because I have all the debs in my hard drive!!! > Wait a second, what if I run apt-get update pointing to frozen, and the > swithch it to > file:// , would that work? > I would like to hear opinions before attempting it again. > Thanx. > > Ron Rademaker wrote: > > > You should change your sources.list and use file:// instead of ftp or http > > to install from a local file, however I think the directory structure > > won't be good AND ther won't be any packages.gz, furthermore you should > > find some kind of force-downgrade options in apt-get. I think you should > > use dpkg to downgrade in this case. > > > > By the way, what do you mean: messed up the system, what went wrong, > > perhaps it'll be easier to fix it! > > > > Ron Rademaker > > > > On Thu, 18 May 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > > > I had installed slink 2.1, which I upgraded through a my moden > > > connection after a few days to frozen. I made a backup of the > > > /var/cache/apt/archives folder in to another partition. After that I > > > messed up my system, so I had to reinstall 2.1 again. How can I apt-get > > > upgrade my system to the previous frozen status by using the backed > > > archive? The problem I see is that apt-get will have troubble > > > determining the dependencies, without a package.gz file, and there > > > wasn't any in the archive. Please help. I would hate to go through the > > > whole downloading thing again. If I fetch the packages.gz file existing > > > now in frozen, it will probably be different enough to be a problem. > > > Please give me some ideas for now and for future problems of the same > > > kind. > > > (Thanx)(10^6) > > > Antonio. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > >
