Noah L. Meyerhans grabbed a keyboard and typed... > On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 09:35:05AM -0800, Anne Carasik wrote: > > Is there a way to define that I only want to use the unstable > > packages just related to snort or do I have to change my entire > > distribution to unstable? Testing distribution has 1.8.7. > No. You would have to pull in all the dependencies from unstable as > well, so you'd get all sorts of fun stuff like libc upgraded.
Yeah, I realized that, then I figured out what to do :)
> It's possible that you could try 'apt-get -b source snort' and have the
> right thing happen. But then again, depending on the package in
> unstable, this might not be buildable on something else.
Right. So, here's what I've been doing:
edit /etc/apt/apt.conf to have the following:
APT::Default-Release "testing";
(I'm using testing instead of stable).
And, for the packages I want the latest release for, I've been
doing this:
apt-get -t unstable install snort
apt-get -t unstable install ssh
etc.
So far, I haven't had any problems :)
> > Any other suggestions or recommendations are also welcome.
> Go to www.snort.org, get the tarball, and install it in /usr/local/.
> That's what I've been doing.
That would have been my next step if the above didn't work.
> This was discussed at quite a bit of length a month or two ago. Check
> the archives.
I saw something on snort-current about keeping rules up to date, but I
don't remember anything about the binaries.
I'll go poke through the archives.
Thanks for your help :)
-Anne
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