How to select specific version for Debian distribution and packages.

[Steffen Grunewald]

On Thu, 2017-07-13 at 15:26:50 +0200, Giorgio Buffa wrote:
> Hello list.
> I would like to install Debian Jessie on my PC. Is it possible to configure
> FAI in order to install the same version of kernel and packages as the ones
> provided in Debian 8.0.0 DVDs?
> 
> In general: is it possible to configure FAI in order to select specific
> version of Debian distribution (e.g v8.0.0) and packages to be installed?

Hi Giorgio,

not sure why you want to do this, but ... you should be able to select
a certain snapshot (that corresponds to the release of 8.0 or whichever
point release - might be tricky to find out the exact date) instead of
the main Debian repository.

HTH,
 Steffen