Not sure about RH, but this is what the debian manpage says:
A specific version of a package can be selected for
installation by following the package name with an
equals and the version of the package to select.
This will cause that version to be located and
selected for install. Alternatively a specific dis
tribution can be selected by following the package
name with a slash and the version of the distribu
tion or the Archive name (stable, frozen, unsta
ble).
On Fri, 07 Jun 2002, Amy Tanner wrote:
> Is there a way to use apt-get to install a particular version of a
> package? I was trying to install kernel-source-2.4.9-31 but the APT
> repository also had 2.4.9-34. I couldn't find a way to tell it the
> version number I wanted. It seems, apt will always install the latest
> version by default but surely there must be a way to specify other.
> I couldn't find anything in the man pages on this. Thanks.
> --
> Amy Tanner
> amy at real-time.com