Re: getting just gnome-2.10 (not all experimental)
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 08:10:07PM +0000, ROBERTOJIMENOCA wrote:
> Ross Burton wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 18:59 +0000, ROBERTOJIMENOCA wrote:
> > > No, that doesn't seem to be an easy way to update to gnome-2.10 unless
> > > you know every package that needs updating.
> > >
> > > I was thinking just typing:
> > > apt-get update
> > > apt-get dist-upgrade
> >
> > Doing that would give you an experimental libc6, which is known to be
> > broken in various ways.
> >
> > I prefer leaving my system as unstable and not editing apt.conf, then
> > doing "apt-get -t experimental upgrade", pressing No, and the installing
> > the gnome packages listed by hand.
> >
> > Not a single operation, but it's preferable to experimental libc, ssh,
> > ifupdown...
>
> That's just what I mean: I don't want to get experimental libc, ssh,
> ifupdown...
>
> That's why I'm suggesting putting all the needed gnome-2.10 packages at:
> deb http://pkg-gnome.alioth.debian.org/debian experimental main
Actually, you would provide only the Packages list there, and could reuse the
normal pool in experimental.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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