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Re: Restrict apt to specific Jessie distro

From Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Restrict apt to specific Jessie distro
Date 2016-02-13 21:10 +0100
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On 14/02/16 00:12, Brendan Simon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a way to restrict apt to a **specific release** of Jessie.
>  e.g. 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, ... ??
> 
> I build root filesystems for embedded systems.  The sources.list is
> set to Jessie, but the contents of the generated rootfs can change
> from one day to the next if there have been updates.  I want to
> lock into a specific release and be sure that the packages wont
> change if I build now and 6 or 12 months later.

If I wanted guaranteed repeatability, I'd be tempted to maintain my
own mirror, that was only updated manually. But as Christian says, you
need to be careful about what updates you're missing.

Richard


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Restrict apt to specific Jessie distro Brendan Simon <Brendan@BrendanSimon.com> - 2016-02-13 12:20 +0100
  Re: Restrict apt to specific Jessie distro Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de> - 2016-02-13 15:00 +0100
    Re: Restrict apt to specific Jessie distro "Brendan Simon (eTRIX)" <brendan.simon@etrix.com.au> - 2016-02-14 12:40 +0100
      Re: Restrict apt to specific Jessie distro Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de> - 2016-02-14 14:20 +0100
  Re: Restrict apt to specific Jessie distro Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2016-02-13 21:10 +0100
  Re: Restrict apt to specific Jessie distro "Brendan Simon (eTRIX)" <brendan.simon@etrix.com.au> - 2016-02-14 12:30 +0100

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