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Ubuntu repo updates

Asked by Tong Sun

Hi,

quite a noob question --

I'm wondering what exactly the Ubuntu policy is regarding to updating its repos.

E.g., for Ubuntu 10.10, it was closely following Debian Testing (?) previously. Now, the Debian Testing has moved pass Squeeze, will Ubuntu 10.10 continue following Debian Testing (?) still? I.e., I'll get a new glibc and literally every single package in the system will be updated?

Is there any way for me to stay where Ubuntu 10.10 were, and updates as little as possible? -- bottom line is that I would never want to update glibc. How about Ubuntu 10.04? Same strategy applies as well?

Please explain.

Thanks

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

The packages are reviewed every 3 months. If there are sufficient bug fixes and/or security updates then the newer version will be updated in the official repos. You can add 3rd party PPAs to get later versions or compile them yourself.

You can use pinning to make apt-get not update a package if you wish.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PinningHowto

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