How to install a specific version of freeradius via apt?

[Mark Antony]

We are going to have multiple VPN servers running on Debian 10. Each server has its own freeradius installation connecting to a central Freeradius database.

More servers will be added to the pool in future.

If each future installation gets the latest freeradius copy, a schema change could break it when trying to communicate to the central freeradius database, that has now an older schema.

Ideally we need to freeze all future installations to a specific version, even if newer versions get to be released.

The current base version on Debian 10 is 3.0.17, which is pretty old. Hence I was hoping there was a way to freeze it to 3.0.21 for all our future installations.





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On Sunday, 14 March 2021 13:48, Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:

> On Mar 14, 2021, at 7:38 AM, Mark Antony via Freeradius-Users freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org wrote:
>
> > Based on Freeradius website, it is possible to
> > echo "deb https://packages.networkradius.com/releases/debian-buster buster main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
> > sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-key 0x41382202
> > apt update
> > But it doesn't allow me to install the older version 3.0.20:
> > apt install --only-upgrade freeradius=3.0.20
>
> We don't keep older copies of the packages around.
>
> Is there any reason you don't want to install the latest version?
>
> Alan DeKok.