Re: fetching older packages?

From: Colin Watson (cjwatson_at_debian.org)
Date: 09/26/03

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    On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 03:23:56AM +0000, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
    > Anyway, this brings up the question, how do I revert to an older version
    > of a package? A friend pointed out that I can just dpkg -i
    > whatever.deb, where whatever is the older version, but I still have
    > questions:
    >
    > 1) Where do I find this older version? In this case it should be the
    > version that was available on unstable right up until a few hours ago.

    http://snapshot.debian.net/ will have it.

    > 2) What does debian do about the dependencies? In most cases, will
    > having newer libraries be okay, or do I need to replace just about
    > everything?

    With the odd exception, newer libraries will usually be OK.

    > 3) The python 2.3.1-1 package depends on the python 2.3 package depends
    > on the python package. How am I to understand these dependencies?
    > Could I just remove the 2.3.1-1 package and still somehow have python
    > running?

    I don't get what you mean here. Could you explain in more detail?

    > 4) If I do revert, how do I tell dselect (or apt-get or whatever) not to
    > upgrade, and how do I know when the newer version is available?

    Press '=' on the package in dselect, or 'echo PACKAGE-NAME hold | dpkg
    --set-selections'. dselect will show you the held package among the
    packages with newer versions available, and you can unhold ('+' in
    dselect) when you think the available version fixes the bug.

    Cheers, 

    -- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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