Re: [Re: [SLUG] Debian downgrade

From: Eric Jahn (eric@ejahn.net)
Date: Sat Sep 13 2003 - 14:06:11 EDT


gotcha, I'll keep Sarge installed instead of downgrading. with the kernel, I
never installed an old one, just a "test-2" version of 2.6. So I just
"apt-get <some-kernel-name-here>" to install a new one, or do I need to then
point my lilo.conf to it, etc?

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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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