On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 01:17:39PM -0400, Craig Longman wrote: > i recently upgraded to debian from redhat, as i was tired of finding > that the latest version of a program i wanted to install required 27 > other rpms that were only available for the latest and greatest version > of redhat. debian seems much more reasonable in this regard, allowing > me to upgrade what i want or what i have to, without forcing a whole > system upgrade every 6-12 months. The beauty of Debian is that even if you do upgrade to a newer version of the entire distribution, you don't need to re-install or even reboot (well, mostly...). A simple `apt-get -fuy dist-upgrade' will bring you up to date, even automatically restarting updated daemons. > secondly, for various reasons, i need to have apache2 2.0.42 installed. > it appears that 2.0.43 has been elevated to 'testing' status, but i [I'm no expert with apt pinning...] If apache2 2.0.43 is in testing, then where is 2.0.42? If it's not available, then maybe apt would get upset and try to give a newer version that's still around. Alternatively, you could just put apache 2.0.42 on hold. aptitude makes this trivial. -rob
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