Re: sources.list: experimental

To: "Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullrich@loop.de>
Cc: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: sources.list: experimental
From: "Sandro Tosi" <morph@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 18:39:10 +0100
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On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 18:35, Hans-J. Ullrich <hans.ullrich@loop.de> wrote:
> adding an experimental source to the sources list (just to install a special
> application from this), will an "aptitude upgrade" or "apt-get upgrade"
> overwrite ALL installed packages ?

No, you need to explicitly request to install packages from
experimental using "-t experimental" option.

Regards,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, Morpheus, matrixhasu)
My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi

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