It's called pinning, you can pin some package to a certain source, distribution or version.
See http://www.argon.org/~roderick/apt-pinning.html http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html Good luck avraham wrote: > Hi, > I had this problem with imagemagick based on libMagick.so.6, at > work: I was not able to use the grab option in display. At home, > with an older version, based on libMagick.so.5, it works. I > looked at the possibilies of upgrade, but apparently, save for > the (sarge) unstable, all versions of imagemagick based on the > newer library have serious bugs. It is not a problem in this case: > one can grab a portion of the screen with other facilities. I > preferred not to upgrade this package to unstable, lest I have to > change many libraries and invite more trouble. I guess, there > are possibilities to downgrade a package to an older > distribution, but I was unable to find indications how to do it. > Thanks, Avraham > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- Regards, Lior Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.Guides.co.il Debian GNU/Linux unstable (SID) ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
