revert an upgrade?

[Tom H]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-04-26 at 12:31 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>>>
>>> So my question is, how can I "redo" the last set of updates?
>>> Specifically from kernel 3.11.0.19 to 3.11.0.20? Or back out the upgrade
>>> completely?
>>
>> Have you tried
>> sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, but having re-read the description of
> dist-upgrade it is unclear to me how this will resolve my problem. I
> have already done an "apt-get update" and an "apt-get upgrade", which
> resulted in no changes because as far as apt-get is concerned, it
> appears my system is up to date. What will dist-upgrade do differently?
> In particular, I'm on 13.10, with 14.04 available - I would not want
> apt-get to start trying to install version 14.04!
>
> Is dist-upgrade "safe" in that sense?

If you haven't changed "/etc/apt/sources.list", you won't be upgraded to 14.04.