Le 08.10.2013 14:10, Ezequiel a écrit :
Hi all: I am Sysadmin at a small business. We have a complete mail-web-vpn infrastructure and my boss is happy with it. I guess we are a successful case of open software use in the "real world" But -of course, there is always an issue- my users keep complaining about OpenOffice migration to Libre Office. They even complain if I change OO from 3.2 to 3.3. I believe there were major changes in that version. The question is: Is there any way of freezing OO version indefinetly? I am currently using oldstable OO but I guess my time is going short. What will happen when they release the new version of debian? I don't know what to do... Thanks in advance for any advices. Zeke PD: My native language is not English, I'm sorry for any mistakes in my writing.
First, I do want to say that you should follow previous advice to try to convince your users :)
But since you did not ask "how to convince my users to upgrade", here is what you might want:
Use the /etc/apt/preferences file.I used it some times ago but can not remember the exact syntax, but you should be able to quickly find some samples on debian's forums. Search for apt-pinning (the name of the technique iirc) and you should find nice examples in debian's forums. This technique is more often used to only use some packages from testing/unstable/experimental on stable, but you should be able to adapt it for your needs easily: simply give very low priorities to the packages you want.
But you should know that it also means that OO (or LO) dependencies will also need to be frozen, and this might avoid other other updates, in turn. Have fun :)