APT/dpkg system within a system

[Benjamin Scott]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:36 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen
<rozzin at geekspace.com> wrote:
> Depending on how many packages you pulled in from sid, you may
> actually be able to just downgrade them by specifying, e.g.:
>
>    apt-get install $pkgname/lenny

  Well, it installed a few hundred packages (which I was expecting),
including things like libc and Perl, and now all sorts of stuff is
broken, so I'm not even gonna bother trying.  I'm actually somewhat
surprised the system is still usable at all.

-- Ben