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MonkeyZiggurat
April 29th, 2010, 10:39 AM
Just wondering if this is feasible/sensible. I'm running a server with 8.04 LTS server edition, and I'd like to upgrade to the latest version of sshd because the version included with 8.04 doesn't easily support chroots and I know it's simple to set up in newer versions. There's no official backport, and I don't want to upgrade the whole OS to 10.04 or 9.10, so I was wondering if it was possible to upgrade only the sshd package using a newer repository or something like that?

nikhilbhardwaj
April 29th, 2010, 10:41 AM
you may want to use apt-pinning
http://www.howtoforge.com/a-short-introduction-to-apt-pinning
this however is not recomended

you'd be better of building from the sources instead

mister_p_1998
January 5th, 2011, 05:01 PM
I have a similar problem, I'm in no rush to upgrade my 8.04 Desktop and I was hoping I could switch to the 8.04 Server repositories when Hardy expires in April 2011. Is this feasible? and what are the server repos addresses?
Steve