apt-get dist-downgrade ? help!!!

[quakeroatz]

So I've got myself into a nasty situation. I did a full testing (woody) istall of debian 2.2 and compiled my own 2.4.3 kernel. Now while install nautilus I realized I needed a mozilla component that may be available from the Unstable (sid) sources. Now after getting my fresh Mozilla, i forgot to comment out the unstable line in my source.list.

Then being the idiot I am, I proceeded to do a:
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

and dled like 130 megs of unstable, super crashy packages. This totally killed my install, nothing works now.. all I want to do is turn back the clock... or do some sort of apt-get dist-downgrade....

Can someone please tell me how to downgrade my whole dist... hopefully back to testing (woody)...

Thanks!!! :eek:

[slacker_x]

Although I don't know for sure, I think I heard that this is not possible because there is no reverse dependency path....something like that.

I'm using sid and I don't know what super crashy packagers you are talking about......works great for me

[bigskinnee]

Ya Debian Unstable (Sid) is working smooth over here as well. But Im also not running Nautilus

bad Nautilus bad bad Nautilus :)

[ 11 April 2001: Message edited by: bigskinnee ]

[mindwarp.out]

Running debian unstable here.. I dont have any crashes, but I run KDE 2 and WM, not gnome (damn thing always crashes). But everything besides gnome works great.. as for downgrading.. your dependancies will be totally messed up. Think about it. if you have a unstable program that requires some library, but the library is from testing or stable, and is out of date.. your system will blow up.. (maybe). Probably best bet is to reinstall fresh.

Mindwarp

[knute]

Wait a week or so and upgrade again. Those issues should be resolved. I've done that before, then decided that I liked cli mode best. (It didn't have anything to do with a 128MB Dimm dieing leaving me with 32MB on my computer. :mad: Nope. Nope. Nope. :D )

[ColdPack]

I'm running unstable with Nautilus (a bit slow on my pentium 133MHz :) ) but it has never crashed my system. Perhaps give the dist-upgrade a whirl again soon and perhaps some odd wrinkles will iron themselves out.