On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:24:31PM -0600, Jason Pepas wrote: > I recently wanted to install perlmagick, which depends on an older version of > perl-api than the one currently on my system. > > This can be remedied by specifying which branch of perl I want (ie, > perl/testing), however, this causes all the packages which depend on my > current version of perl-spi to be removed. > > My question is, does there exist a way to tell apt to downgrade a package, and > attempt to downgrade dependant packages instead of removing them?
I think it's possible to do this using apt's pinning feature. The real solution is to use a single Debian distribution, so that you don't get dependency breakage like this (aside from during transitions, of course). -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ertius.org/
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