Re: want to undo apt-pinning

From: Jamin W. Collins (jcollins_at_asgardsrealm.net)
Date: 11/14/03

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    Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 08:48:12 -0700
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    On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 10:22:54AM -0500, Benjamin Rutt wrote:
    > I had a debian stable system that was running well. Then, I wanted to
    > try out some parts of the unstable packages, but without fully going
    > to unstable. So I followed instructions for apt-pinning at
    >
    > http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html
    >
    > and installed some packages via e.g. "apt-get -t unstable install
    > foo".
    (snip)
    > How can I clean all unstable packages from
    > my system, and go back to stable? Is there way dpkg can tell whether
    > a package came from {stable, testing, unstable}? Or can I do that
    > somehow with apt?

    You might try setting your stable priority to 1000 or more and the
    perform a dist-upgrade. If I'm not mistaken, this will attempt to
    revert your system to stable only since the priority is over 1000.

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