[SA-exim] Re: Debian issue w/exim4_i386.deb, depends on libc6 2.2.5-14.3

[Derrick 'dman' Hudson]

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:38:14AM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote:
| On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 01:27:08PM -0600, Dave Plonka wrote:
| > wants 2.2.5-14.3, which happens to be the current version from "testing"
| > distribution.
|  
| Ah, yeah, darn.
| If someone who knows debian can tell me how to force an older version of the
| libc when I build the package, I'll be happy to do that.

The only way I know of is to have the desired version installed on the
system.  That can be done in a chroot jail, though.

| > "testing" since I've always just run the "stable" distribution.  If I
| > change to "testing" in "source.list", dselect will want to upgrade all
| > packages to the "testing" version, right?  Ugh.
|
| I don't use dselect, I just use apt, but I'm pretty sure that as long as you
| don't do an dist-upgrade, you can point to testing, and only upgrade the
| pacakges you want (and their dependencies)
| That's what I do (although it's not technically supported, but it's worked
| fine for me the last 4 years I've been doing it)

See apt_preferences(5).

-D

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