"Christofer C. Bell" <christofer.c.b...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: >> >> However, I think that happenstance might mean that even a fairly >> incompetent klutz might be able to blunder thru a huge bout of ripping >> out kde and most of X then moving from testing to stable, and finally >> installing lxde and enough of xorg stuff to make it work, without all >> that much trouble. > > Harry, this move from testing to stable has me perplexed. How did you > accomplish that? Can you please post your /etc/apt/sources.list, the > content of /etc/debian_version, the output of "uname -a" and the > versions of the following packages?
Egad, don't start picking this apart... it's working :) It was a bit of a slug fest... and I made many moves without recording what I'd done... but I can post the requested stuff. ,---- | /etc/apt/sources.list | deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free | # deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main | deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free | # deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main | deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian squeeze-updates main contrib `---- ,---- | cat /etc/debian_version | wheezy/sid (whOOOps) `---- ,---- | uname -a | Linux reader 3.0.0-1-686-pae #1 SMP Sat | Aug 27 16:41:03 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux `---- > * coreutils (stable is at 8.5-1) > * base-files (stable is at 6.0squeeze5) > * bash (stable is at 4.1-3) > * dpkg (stable is at 1.15.8.12) > * apt (stable is at 0.8.10.3+squeeze1) ,---- | dpkg -l coreutils base-files bash dpkg apt | Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/ ... | |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) | ||/ Name Version Description | +++-=================-======================================= | ii apt 0.8.15.9 Advd front-end for dpkg | ii base-files 6.5 Deb base system misc ... | ii bash 4.2-1 GNU Bourne Again SHell | ii coreutils 8.13-3 GNU core utilities | ii dpkg 1.16.1.2 Deb package management ... `---- ,---- | dpkg-query -W|awk '{printf "%-40s %s\n", $1, $2}'|egrep \ | '^(coreutils |base-files |bash |dpkg |apt )' | apt 0.8.15.9 | base-files 6.5 | bash 4.2-1 | coreutils 8.13-3 | dpkg 1.16.1.2 `---- Yikes, looks like I lied thru my teeth. But I can tell you that all those notices about updates when I was running testing do not come anymore... > You can check these with: > > harry@debian:~$ dpkg -l $package_name > > A downgrade of the operating system to a prior release (in this case, > from testing to stable, or from wheezy to squeeze) is really not > supported by the package management system. The above files, > commands, and package versions look at some key operating system > version information and core package versions and will give a good > indication as to whether or not you're actually back on stable. I > just can't shake the feeling you're now running some sort of > frankenstein combination of testing and stable. Err yup, looks like Marty Feldman, although now deceased, could make a comeback otherwise. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/874nqjnl20....@newsguy.com
