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> Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 12:52:54 -0400
> From: Scott Piper <piper@ij.net>
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> I've never downgraded so I don't really know if that will work or not,
> but why bother? I don't think that testing would be all that _unstable_.
> I myself have run the _unstable_ branch for a couple years now and I would
> recommend that you run _unstable_ and skip woody and the testing branch if
> you want to play with the latest things and if you don't care about
> having to sort out a few problems once in a while if at all, which in
> my experience is very rarely. If Suse, Mandrake, and RedHat were run by
> the Debian group, all of their latest versions would probably be
> considered _unstable_ or testing branches.
>
> People get way too afraid of the unknown. If you ever do have a problem
> with _unstable_, and that is by no means a given, then you can learn a bit
> more by fixing it, either by yourself or with the help of others. The
> only way I would advise against _unstable_ is if you don't have a decent
> net connection available at least on occasion, because the apt-get
> update/upgrade sessions can often pull in a couple hundred MB of
> downloads if you have a ton of packages installed. Of course you don't
> have to upgrade unless you want to.
>
> As for the kernel, you probably have your old one still installed. Just
> edit your /etc/lilo.conf file and set the old one to the default. It is
> identified by either the line default= or else it is the first one
> listed.
>
>
> scott
>
>
> Eric Jahn wrote:
>
> >So I installed Debian from the netinstall CD which, for the iso I downloaded,
> >only had Sarge and Sid available, so I installed Sarge. Now the Debian
> >system is operational, and I wish to downgrade it to Woody, mostly because I
> >want as stable a system as possible for the long run. To downgrade, I saw
> >this on the net.
> >____________________
> >modify the /etc/apt/preferences file to contain:
> >
> >Package: *
> >Pin: release a=stable
> >Pin-Priority: 1001
> >
> >and "apt-get upgrade" will downgrade everything (you might want to
> >prevent it downgrading apt though):
> >____________________
> >is this the best way to quickly downgrade? Also, I must confess, I couldn't
> >resist checking out the new 2.6 kernel that was in the tree, because I heard
> >it had a more sophisticated task switching mechanism making the desktop
> >appear smoother. Now I want to back down to a stable kernel. Is this just a
> >simple apt-get install operation on the new, lower version stable kernel?
> >Thanks for the advice!
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