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Re: Question about snort binaries..



* Anne Carasik <gator@cacr.caltech.edu> wrote:

> This may be a stupid question, but I'm going to ask anyway :)

No problem at all. :-)

> Debian 3.0 uses Snort 1.8.4beta1, and unstable uses 1.9.0.
> Is there a way to define that I only want to use the unstable
> packages just related to snort or do I have to change my entire
> distribution to unstable? Testing distribution has 1.8.7.
> The problem I have is the snort rules are updated for 1.9.0,
> but not for 1.8.4beta1 :(
> Any other suggestions or recommendations are also welcome.

So here is mine:

Forget about apt-pinning and installing original Sid packages on
Woody. You should better use backported versions and what you certainly
want is this link:

,----[ Current version of snort for Woody ]
| <http://debian.fluidsignal.com/dists/woody/updates/main/binary-i386/>
`----

Regards,
Marcus
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