[ubuntu-uk] Downgrading Ubuntu

[Tony Travis]

Ian Pascoe wrote:
> All
> 
> Having upgraded to Gutsy through Update Manager and established that a
> number of the ATSPI packages are somewhat flakey, I'd like to revert back to
> 7.04 until things stableise.
> 
> Is this an easy thing to do without doing a total re-install?

Hello, Ian.

I used this script to automatically downgrade packages after I decided 
not to use the Dapper 'backports' repository. You'll need to install 
"apt-show-versions", and change the script for "feisty".

Best wishes,

	Tony.

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#!/bin/sh
# @(#)downgrade.sh  2007-07-08  A.J.Travis

#
# Downgrade versions of packages newer than in archive
#

TMP=/tmp/downgrade.$$

if [ $USER != "root" ]; then
         echo "downgrade: Only root can do this"
         exit 1
fi
apt-show-versions -i
apt-show-versions |
         fgrep 'newer than version in archive' |
         cut -d' ' -f 1 >$TMP
if [ -s $TMP ]; then
         apt-show-versions -a |
         fgrep -f $TMP |
         grep dapper$ |
         sed -e 's/\t/=/;s/\t.*$//' |
         xargs aptitude install
fi
rm $TMP
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