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Re: stable: mail virus scanner



On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 02:15:58PM -0700, Ben Hartshorne wrote:
> On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 09:55:18AM -0700, Ben Hartshorne wrote:
> > On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 02:25:52PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote:
> > > Hi group,
> > > 
> > > I'm running stable on my server and I want to install an e-mail
> > > anti-virus scanner (all free software, of course). I'm using exim and I
> > > was thinking of using amavis and clamav. However, they only reside in
> > > testing. So, what do I do? Backporting, or is their an other (better,
> > > easier) solution?
> > 
> > You add the testing line to your sources.list
> > you add 'Apt::Default-Release=stable' to your /etc/apt/config
> > you specifically request individual packages from testing by running
> > apt-get -t testing <packagename>
> > 
> > Double check man pages (and the apt-howto, apt-get install apt-howto)
> > for syntax details; I'm going on memory.
> > 
> > apt-howto section 3.8 tells more.
> > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-default-version
> 
> Please disregard this message.
> 
> Use backports instead.
> 
> See a concurrent thread on this list, "Re: What was this error message"
> for a discussion of the dangers of mixing stable and unstable.

Got that, thanks. So backporting it is, ;-)

David



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