On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 06:21:39PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
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> You can not do it in dselect. Just ftp the package to your system and use
> dpkg like this:
>
> dpkg --install --force-downgrade package.deb
I just do this:
dpkg --install package.deb
It gives a warning about downgrading to a p
Rick Macdonald wrote:
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> George Bonser wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> >
> > > This is something that I've always wondered about. Can you actually tell
> > > dselect about both stable and unstable at the same time? I've always
> > > been afraid to do that.
> >
> > Yes,
Rick Macdonald wrote:
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> Tommy wrote:
> >
> > When I upgraded the package lists of
> > stable, unstable, contrib, and non-free dselect ...
>
> This is something that I've always wondered about. Can you actually tell
> dselect about both stable and unstable at the same time? I've always
> been a
Stephen Pitts wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 09:17:52PM -0500, Tommy wrote:
> > I have been experiencing some problems due to my carelessly mixing
> > releases. In order to fix the problem I would like to bring my system
> > back to a state where only " Stable" components from my Debian 2.0 cd
George Bonser wrote:
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> On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote:
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> > Hmmm, that doesn't seem much different than if you just define unstable,
> > except for packages that are only in one or the other. The intersection
> > of stable and unstable would just be the same as unstable anyway. Right
Marshall Savage wrote:
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> I have been following your thread & you have my
> sympathy. I'm too ignorant to have any ideas or
> suggestions. Your problems sound like mine except on a
> bigger scale. The Debian people keep claiming that dpkg &
> dselect are so great but in my experience they are
George Bonser wrote:
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> On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote:
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> > Does it merge stable and unstable and just show the newest version of
> > each package,
>
> Yes.
>
> or keep them separate so I can choose?
>
> No
Hmmm, that doesn't seem much different than if you just define unstable,
George Bonser wrote:
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> On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote:
>
> > This is something that I've always wondered about. Can you actually tell
> > dselect about both stable and unstable at the same time? I've always
> > been afraid to do that.
>
> Yes, you can do that. Just make sure you go i
I have been following your thread & you have my
sympathy. I'm too ignorant to have any ideas or
suggestions. Your problems sound like mine except on a
bigger scale. The Debian people keep claiming that dpkg &
dselect are so great but in my experience they are at best
medium in practice. Th
On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 08:01:43PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote:
>
> > This is something that I've always wondered about. Can you actually tell
> > dselect about both stable and unstable at the same time? I've always
> > been afraid to do that.
>
> Yes, y
On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 10:42:23PM -0500, Tommy wrote:
> Stephen Pitts wrote:
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> > >
> > You don't. Downgrading packages has undefined results. A better option
> > would be to
> > tell the list about your problems and we'll help you fix them
> > --
>
> Currently dselect marks 90% of the packag
Tommy wrote:
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> When I upgraded the package lists of
> stable, unstable, contrib, and non-free dselect ...
This is something that I've always wondered about. Can you actually tell
dselect about both stable and unstable at the same time? I've always
been afraid to do that.
--
...RickM...
Stephen Pitts wrote:
> >
> You don't. Downgrading packages has undefined results. A better option would
> be to
> tell the list about your problems and we'll help you fix them
> --
Currently dselect marks 90% of the package on my system as broken. And
there are a lot of them. I tried switching
On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 09:17:52PM -0500, Tommy wrote:
> I have been experiencing some problems due to my carelessly mixing
> releases. In order to fix the problem I would like to bring my system
> back to a state where only " Stable" components from my Debian 2.0 cd
> are on it, so that everything
I have been experiencing some problems due to my carelessly mixing
releases. In order to fix the problem I would like to bring my system
back to a state where only " Stable" components from my Debian 2.0 cd
are on it, so that everything works correctly. And I can move forward
from there if I choose
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