Re: how to downgrade and pin package (durep)?
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> as a followup to an earlier post of mine, i can see now that the
> current durep package (0.9-1) works *very* differently from the
> earlier one, so rather than fight with the new one, i'm happy to use
> the older version. how exactly does one downgrade a package to a
> particular version, then make sure it stays there over upgrades?
> thanks, i've been awake for a day and a half and i'm just too tired to
> go looking for the answer. sorry.
>
> rday
> --
Assuming you're running stable and want durep from old stable you can fetch
the package [1], and dpkg -i install it. Or to complicate things, you can add
old stable to your sources.list, make an appropriate /etc/apt/preferences
entry for the package, and used aptitude -t etch install durep.
[1] http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/durep/durep_0.8.1-7_all.deb
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