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Re: etch libssl-dev bug?



On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 05:16:09PM -0700, David Brown wrote:
> 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.
> 
Yes, packages will never be downgraded unless you manually force the
downgrade.

Installing from the testing installer explains the Lenny CD entries in
your sources.list.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sánchez
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