Re: Frustration with randome number generator vuln and ssh

[Riku Valli <riku.valli@vallit.fi>]

yosh wrote:
> W. Martin Borgert skrev:
> > On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 02:37:38PM -0500, James Miller wrote:
> >  
> > > All I needed to do was run "aptitude install 
> > > libssl0.9.8=0.9.8c-4etch3"      
> > ...
> >  
> > > I have to admit, I _really_ need to learn aptitude, I'm kinda stuck 
> > > in my ways using apt-get and dselect.
> > >     
> >
> > I believe, that "apt-get install <package>=<version>" works as
> > well. Or: "apt-get install <package>/<distribution>" with
> > distribution = stable or testing or unstable. No need to switch
> > to aptitude, IMHO. But let dselect rest in peace :~)
> >
> > (Another common aptitude advantage was its automatic handling of
> > orphaned packages, but apt-get does the same since some time.)
> >
> >
> >   
> Sorry for hijacking the thread :)
>
> If I choose install a package from stable and there is a newer copy in 
> testing (which I'm using) apt-get will try to replace that package on 
> the next apt-get upgrade. Is there any way to counteract this?
>
> regards
> --
> yosh
> yosh@yosh.se
May be you should read this

http://wiki.debian.org/AptPinning


Regards, Riku