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> On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 04:48 PM, Fred K Ollinger wrote:
> > However, the one thing that I hated about Jaguar is that I couldn't
> > roll
> > back to a stable state. There is no downgrade in OS X (if there is,
> > please
> > tell me and maybe I could fix this situation). In linux, I can keep as
> > many kernels as possible so at least my old stuff will continue
> > working.
>
> That changed in Jaguar (or maybe it was 10.1.5) there IS an un-install
> feature on the install disk. It's in the pull-down, (along with a
> terminal window for standalone repairs.) However, I can't tell you how
> well it works, or what is required to make it work. It may only work if
> you have done a "clean install" -- which effectively renames / and
> creates a new one... but you need twice as much free space then.
>
> Usually, it is EXTREMELY painful to roll back ANY OS upgrade. Much
> easier to reload the backup you made before the upgrade. If all you
If you ran debian you could do:
To downgrade all packages to stable, edit /etc/apt/preferences as follows:
Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 1001
and run "apt-get upgrade", which forces downgrade due to Pin-priority >
1000
It won't cost you $120 to find out that it won't work either.
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-package.en.html
Also, another cool thing is that since deps are worked out across
upgrades, you could upgrade only a few packages. So I could have all the
features of debian's equivalent of jaguar, but use older printer drivers
that still "just work" for my printer. If I'm spending $120 for an apt-get
dist-upgrade, I expect at least equivalent functionality. I got less.
Fred Ollinger
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