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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
