On 06/28/2017 12:04 PM, KatolaZ wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> as you know, there was a glitch in amprolla this morning, and by
> mistake ascii got merged on Debian Buster, the new Debian testing
> branch. This means that the users who apt-get updated/upgraded (or
> used aptitute update/upgrade) in the last 24 hours might have gotten
> some packages from what is effectively Devuan unstable.
>
> Please notice that only users using Devuan Ascii could be affected by
> the glitch, and only those who upgraded their system in the last 24
> hours. Devuan Jessie and Devuan Ceres are fine.
>
> The issue has now been resolved, mostly thanks to the prompt action of
> Centurion Dan and Nextime, and to the new version of amprolla coded by
> parazyd and Wizzup, which is able to produce a new merged tree in much
> less time than the current production system.
>
> We apologise for any inconvenience caused, but as said by jaromil,
> this is the first time that we witness a Debian switch from testing to
> stable on our merged repos. We have learned a lot from this incident,
> and we thank you all for your patience.
>
> For those whose Ascii system was erroneously upgraded with packages
> from the new Debian testing, please keep reading since it is possible
> to downgrade your system to use actual ascii packages. The trick
> consists into introducing a temporary pin of ascii to 1001, then
> apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade, and then remove the pin.
>
> In other words:
>
> 1) create the file /etc/apt/preferences/ascii-pin containing the
> following three lines:
How do you make a file there especially if preferences is either missing
or named differently?


aka, /etc/apt/preferences

the below is therefore difficult unless someone tells me how to fix it...

>
> Package: *
> Pin: release n=ascii
> Pin-Priority: 1001
>
> 2) # apt-get update
>
> 3) # apt-get dist-upgrade
> (this should remove all the newly upgraded packages)
>
> 4) remove /etc/apt/preferences/ascii-pin
>
> If you still experience issues, please get in touch via IRC on #devuan
> or #devuan-dev (freenet)