On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 09:34:00AM +0530, Rajesh wrote:
>
> Is there any way other than doing apt-cdrom add all over again for all
> the debian CD's ? Any way to tell apt-get to install from the local CD's
> rather than net in case a little earlier version is available.
>
> apt-cache shows both the versions but since the net version is latest
> apt-get tries to install that.
>
> Anybody knows any switch or some configuration changes to force apt-get
> to install from the local CD's when not connected to net.
>
I assume that you have both the cd and net related lines in your
/etc/apt/sources.list. What are the releases that you are tracking? Let
me assume that you have testing for net and stable for cd. Then you can
use the pin feature of apt to install any version of the program you
want. man apt-preferences should help you.
Regards,
--
Sridhar M.A.
You can never do just one thing.
-- Hardin
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