My network connection dropped for a bit and packets apparently got reordered... price / debian / price // Apr 26 23:07:32 (Greg Price) "aptitude search '?narrow(?installed,?not(?origin(Ubuntu)))' | wc -l" tells me I have 735 packages from Wheezy. (Well, including a handful from git-ppa, ksplice-uptrack, and dropbox.) Time for some fun dependency resolution! price / debian / price // Apr 26 23:14:39 (Greg Price) Interestingly, it says it will downgrade 971 packages. Wonder why that is so much larger than the number that aptitude search gives. price / debian / andersk // Apr 26 23:14:56 (Anders Kaseorg) And you did ‘apt-get dist-upgrade’? price / debian / price // Apr 26 23:15:03 (Greg Price) Oh, with 'apt-get dist-upgrade' == price / debian / price // Apr 26 23:15:03 (Greg Price) andersk: That's what I thought from the apt_preferences man page, but it doesn't seem to be working. price / debian / andersk // Apr 26 23:15:16 (Anders Kaseorg) Only with apt-get, not with aptitude, apparently. price / debian / price // Apr 26 23:15:19 (Greg Price) Just tried that -- had been 'install'. price / debian / price // Apr 26 23:15:39 (Greg Price) Hmm, not with apt-get either. price / debian / price // Apr 26 23:15:40 (Greg Price) Hmm, I think that's downgrading all the 'maverick-updates' packages to the versions from 'maverick'. Let's tweak those preferences... price / debian / price // Apr 26 23:16:32 (Greg Price) My /etc/apt/preferences is Package: * Pin: release o=Debian Pin-Priority: -10 Package: * Pin: release a=maverick Pin-Priority: 1001 price / debian / andersk // Apr 26 23:16:55 (Anders Kaseorg) > be sure to pin it back in /etc/apt/preferences. BTW, I found it easier to just pin Ubuntu up slightly (600). Then when I upgrade a package from a PPA, it will get future upgrades from the PPA, but if I don’t, it will only get upgrades from Ubuntu. price / debian / wdaher // Apr 26 23:17:03 (Waseem Daher) ifconfig 4 lyf price / debian / geofft // Apr 26 23:17:26 (rising you restored our life) Dude, WINIPCFG.EXE 4 lyf, what are you talking about price / debian / geofft // Apr 26 23:17:58 (rising you restored our life) WaitstarkWHEEZY? srsly? price / debian / price // Apr 26 23:18:05 (Greg Price) Makes sense. price / debian / price // Apr 26 23:18:22 (Greg Price) I may experiment with that, as soon as I have my computer working again. =) price / debian / andersk // Apr 26 23:18:41 (Anders Kaseorg) I think you can also pin every Ubuntu package to 1001 and apt will downgrade all the Debian packages to Ubuntu packages.