Re: etch libssl-dev bug?

["David Brown" <dmlb2000@gmail.com>]

On 5/18/07, Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@connexer.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 05:08:15PM -0700, David Brown wrote:
> >
> > dns8214E770:~/lustre/etch-root# apt-cache policy libssl0.9.8 libssl-dev
> > libssl0.9.8:
> >  Installed: 0.9.8e-4
>    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Somehow, you have gotten the lenny version of libssl0.9.8 installed.
> That is confusing apt since it wants to give priority to the newest
> version.  You can fix that manually by 'apt-get install
> libssl0.9.8=0.9.8c-4'.  However, you may want to do some more
> investigating as you are likely to have other packages from testing.
> You can find out which ones by installig apt-show-versions and then
> running 'apt-show-versions |grep -i newer' to see which packages you
> have installed that are newer than those in the archive.

Ah, this makes a little more sense so switching 'versions' of debian
only does upgrades not downgrades of packages... didn't know that. I
installed from the testing network installer iso, which I think is
lenny.

Thanks for all the help.
- David Brown