Re: Very Selective upgrade
greggy wrote:
>
> Imran Geriskovan wrote:
> >
> > Sorry for the cross posting.
> > But I just wanted to carry the discussion to dpkg list.
> >
> > Well...
> >
> > For me Tom's point is a very important issue.
> >
> > Now I have debian machine installed by using the "testing"
> > branch 50 days ago. Now I want to upgrade/install some packages.
> > In dselect I choose the update option (using method apt).
> > Now the select says that it will going to upgrade nearly all of the
> > packages. In 50 days I've done alot of customization
> > on that machine and I do not want to ugrade most of them.
> >
> > Meanwhile I'm quite satisfied with the system.
> > And I have no intention for such a big upgrade.
> > However currently (and sadly) I can not use dselect for
> > automatic installion of other packages with all their dependent ones
> > because choosing "Install" will upgrade rest of the system.
> >
> > Hence I have no option :( other than manually downloading and
> > installing new packages with all others that the packages depends on. :(
> >
> > Is it be possible to "freeze" some packages on a machine
> > an make them immune to later updates/installations?
> >
> > It would be a very nice feature.
> >
> > Regards.......Imran
> >
> > Tom Allison wrote:
> > > Can someone give me an example of how I would upgrade a specific
> > > package from 'testing' without affecting any of the apt-get libraries?
> > > If I change the sources.list to include 'testing' then I get all
> > > kinds of files selected for upgrade. I really don't want to move
> > > anything out of 'stable' right now as I've tried repeated upgrades
> > > and they all result in a horrific system failure.
> > > I've got 'stable' installed, but I want to include the 'testing'
> > > version of openSSH...
> >
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> Maybe incremental upgrades are the key...one from testing to replace the
> one from stable that you'd like to try, then the one in testing that you
> don't have but would like to try ... i'd get it from stable, famliarize
> myself with it, hoping that this procedure would give me an increased
> knowledge base to deal with any failures...and so on...I did a 3 hour
> "apt-get dist-upgrade" from coreldoze and got a massive syslump 'cause I
> wasn't able to handle the newer lilo package...get it ?...
Please forgive the above post...I should have read everything
carefully...
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