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Re: Vulnerabilities found by Nessus



On Tuesday 15 October 2002 13:56, Yven Leist wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 October 2002 13:33, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
> > And I haven't been able to
> > downgrade (hints are welcome! :-) ), but I do not have any testing
> > or unstable
>
> Just put the following in lines in /etc/apt/preferences
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=stable
> Pin-Priority: 1001

Tried that, but it stopped when downgrading dpkg. 

> PS: I  hope you are aware of the fact that testing is security-wise
> really the worst distribution to run, much worse than unstable!

Yeah, anxiously aware... I'm not tracking testing now, some security 
updates go right in anyway with apt-get upgrade. Others I download and 
install with dpkg -i. But I'm far from confident, downgrading would be 
optimal, because I wouldn't like to reinstall... 

Best,

Kjetil
-- 
Kjetil Kjernsmo
Astrophysicist/IT Consultant/Skeptic/Ski-orienteer/Orienteer/Mountaineer
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