Care to tell us what you did to make it want to downgrade?
Also what do you have in /etc/apt/apt.conf and sources.list?
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
cvs dhcp3-common dhcp3-server dietlibc-dev falconseye falconseye-data fam
glibc-doc gs-common gzip iproute ircii lbxproxy lftp lha libdps1 liblwres1
libmailtools-perl libmysqlclient10 libnetpbm9 libxaw7 libxaw7-dev libxml1
lynx man-db mikmod mime-support mpack mpg321 mysql-client mysql-common
mysql-server netris nfs-common nfs-kernel-server pcmcia-cs proxymngr rsync
samba-doc screen thttpd twm unzip wget xboing xdm xfonts-100dpi
xfonts-100dpi-transcoded xfonts-75dpi xfonts-75dpi-transcoded xfonts-base
xfonts-base-transcoded xfonts-scalable xfs xfwp xgalaga xnest xpdf
xpdf-utils xserver-common xserver-xfree86 xterm xutils xvfb
is there a way to stop it from asking me if i want to downgrade or not?
Care to tell us what you did to make it want to downgrade?
Also what do you have in /etc/apt/apt.conf and sources.list?
i did not do anything .... I installed a few video-audio plugins from synaptic and next time i did an update and then upgrade asked me to downgrade all these or not.Originally Posted by Markus
this is my sources list. It is the default.
APT:efault-Release "testing";
APT::Cache-Limit 10000000;
Apt::Get::Purge;
deb file:/var/cache/apt-build/repository apt-build main
# /etc/apt/sources.list for Knoppix
# If you want to do a "full upgrade", you should first
# upgrade the Packages from Debian/unstable (KDE & Co.)
# before doing a (dist-)upgrade for Debian/testing.
#
# See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy
# Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
# CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool.
# Security updates for "stable"
deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org testing/updates main contrib non-free
# Stable
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
# Stable Sources
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
# Testing
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
# Testing Sources
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
# Unstable
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
# Unstable Sources
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
# Experimental
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main contrib non-free
# Experimental Sources
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main contrib non-free
# Java
deb ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/debian woody main non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/debian woody main non-free
deb ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/debian unstable main non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/debian unstable main non-free
# More wireless stuff
deb http://debian.isg.ee.ethz.ch/public woody madwifi
deb-src http://debian.isg.ee.ethz.ch/public woody madwifi
deb http://debian.isg.ee.ethz.ch/public woody airo-mpi
deb-src http://debian.isg.ee.ethz.ch/public woody airo-mpi
# deb ftp://ftp.tcweb.org/pub/debian unstable main
# deb-src ftp://ftp.tcweb.org/pub/debian unstable main
# Blades Repository (pppoeconf & co)
# deb http://people.debian.org/~blade/testing ./
# deb-src http://people.debian.org/~blade/testing ./
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20010427)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sid main
deb-src http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sid main
Knoppix is a mix of testing, unstable and even stable I think.
If you remember which packages you got with synaptic you could check from which tree they were with: apt-cache policy packagename
Looks to me like you got some from testing and now it wants to downgrade the ones depending on them also to testing.
What happens with: apt-get -s -t unstable install packagename_you_installed and_another_one
Originally Posted by Markus
apt-get -s -t unstable install avifile-divx-plugin
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
avifile-divx-plugin is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 568 not upgraded.
apt-cache policy avifile-divx-plugin
avifile-divx-plugin:
Installed: 1:0.7.38.20030710-1.1
Candidate: 1:0.7.38.20030710-1.1
Version Table:
*** 1:0.7.38.20030710-1.1 0
99 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
this plugin was 1 of the 10 i got yesterday
what is going to happen if i hit Y to downgrade and then try to upgrade again? will it let me upgrade them or not
I'd say that the testing there is why your getting testing packages unless you specify unstable.Originally Posted by DimGR
Did you tell synaptic to get from unstable?
I don't suppose downgrading the packages will do much harm, but then again, I have never downgraded as I run a pure unstable so I can't tell for sure.
so if i just replace the word testing with unstable everything will be fine ?Originally Posted by Markus
i did not specify from where to download the plugins ...
Don't know about fine but at least you'll be getting packages from one branch only which will make life a lot easier.
What will happen is that it's going to upgrade the whole system to unstable so you'll probably want to check commands like
dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/package.......deb
A shorter way to do this would be a dist-upgrade but from what I've read, others have had lots of problems with that command.
FWIW you might want to repeat the -t unstable install with the other packages as well or at least check them with policy to find out whats downgrading your system.
Originally Posted by Markus
but i had installed and i have been with Sid unstable. HOw did it become "testing" ?
Hmm, what did you install?
Knoppix is not pure sid. It's as said, a mix of sid, sarge and I think even woody.
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