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Re: [PLUG] un-upgrade in debian
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To my knowledge, its not possible to downgrade in Debian. Unless you
manually want to change the /var/apt/cache. My advice is wait until vorbis
is fixed in unstable and you should be set.
Goodluck,
Naresh
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Will Dyson wrote:
> Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> > I want to revert back to a previous version of the ogg tools in
> > debian, because the current version in testing doesn't work.
>
> <snip>
>
> > Any advice or pointers?
>
> Advice: upgrade to vorbis-tools 1.0 from unstable, rather than downgrading.
>
> You can do this easily by adding the unstable archives to your
> sources.list file and (important) setting a low (100<X<500) Pin-priority
> on packages from unstable. You can do this by adding the following lines
> to your /etc/apt/preferences file (copied from my woody machine)
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=unstable
> Pin-Priority: 101
>
> This is not a well-advertised feature of apt, but it works well. It is
> documented in the man page for apt_preferences. The packages from testing
> will still be the default. You will have to specficly ask for the version
> from unstable.
>
> If you really must downgrade, then check this out:
> http://debianplanet.org/node.php?id=717
>
> In case debianplanet barfs or something, the relevent link is
> http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/
>
> --
> Will Dyson
> "Back off man, I'm a scientist!" -Dr. Peter Venkman
>
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