-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJWv4l1AAoJELSi8I/scBaNbokH/2NjZFte+rUy2OMFhUNqAyKr 4T2jWfmICQMzjJNGp7Pk75kZbIDmjbjyaTuyCFXV6vhoax9Q8leP0U1j6mnQKffq 8MqEhMNKCSWKi/Rmg+wwBrLYvCclrGvYq9kJAxQl49bphQHdfXsaGjRUn+rYvduA YPSaaZPSFLpCkvzMUpgKExzdCRQZgOUmIag3fB9EwzrCxBmDvFC0FYRC54GSVLmp ieOQlyVuzogw70eGSzmvYXe9lGTGofRq9BSfXAQmBu76IdD4A1fkerdubiJ0GHfM ST9QALK0jrqOo5ConauGFk1Pb73826KtNjOwawlZhLx/7/YvwXJMXZ8YyFBS+8k= =WLG8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

