On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 7:09 PM, SRIKANTH NS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I do not need the bleeding edge software of 8.10 and am quite happy
> with the other multimedia and miscellaneous software from the earlier
> distro.
>


for a particular software, if you want to do that, you can pin down the
version of the software in a file /etc/apt/preferences

by doing that, even if your repository is pointing to intrepid, any upgrade
won't result in upgrade of that particular software. it will remain the as
such.

This should be of help:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-pin

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