Re: downgrading libc6

From: Paul Yeatman (pyeatman_at_ucsd.edu)
Date: 10/16/03

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    Well, for the record, with not getting anyone else's opinion on this, I
    finally gave things a try and ran

            dpkg -i libc6_2.2.5-11.5_i386.deb libc6-dev_2.2.5-11.5_i386.deb

    and the only warning (other than the obvious fact that I was
    downgrading packages) was that such a downgrade would require
    overwriting another package's files, libdb1-compat. This package is
    required by libc6 >= 2.2.5-13 which applied to the higher version of
    libc6 I was coming from but not going to. So, with a fair amount of
    looking over manual pages for dpkg and such, I came up with:

            dpkg -i -B --force-overwrite libc6*2.2.5*.deb

    which I tried with a bit of concern. The -B is supposed to
    "deconfigure" any packages which depend on a package(s) you are
    removing. The --force-overwrite tells dpkg to go ahead and write over
    another package's files. This worked great! Once libc6 and libc6-dev
    where downgraded, I was able to remove libdb1-compat without trouble
    (again, worried a bit that removal of the package might remove
    files required by libc6-2.2.5-11.5 but it thankfully did not).

    Paul

    ->>In response to your message<<-
      --received from Paul Yeatman--
    >
    > Hi, I've inherited a Debian system that primarily uses the stable
    > distribution and yet on which the previous manager must have upgraded
    > libc6, libc6-dev and locales to, likely, the testing distribution as
    > they are higher versions than available from stable. Now that it is in
    > my hands, I'd prefer it use the versions current with the stable dist.
    > From doing some research, I feel fairly confident that only the
    > packages above where upgraded (using 'dpkg -l', going through
    > 'dselect', looking through /var/lib/dpkg/available, etc) yet realize
    > these are less than perfect checks and that I could easily be missing
    > something.
    >
    > I'm tempted to downgrade with a:
    >
    > dpkg -i libc6_2.2.5-11.5_i386 libc6-dev_2.2.5-11.5_i386 locales_2.2.5-11.5_i386
    >
    > I'm I asking for a lot of trouble???? Is there a safer more sure way
    > to do this?
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > Paul
    >
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