On Wednesday 28 June 2006 10:45, Clinton V. Weiss wrote: > I'm setting up a machine which I would like to keep mostly stable > (sarge) packages. However, some packages such as Firefox or GAIM, I'd > like to run the newer versions. Reading up on the man pages and the > Debian manual has gotten me this far: Differences in libc (which most packages depend on) between stable and the newer distributions make this impossible. Don't use apt-pinning, apt-pinning considered harmful unless you understand exactly how you're torquing your entire system by doing so. Use backports.org or apt-get.org to find a backport for what you want instead. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): baloo@ursine.ca Jabber: Because it's time to move forward http://ursine.ca/Ursine:Jabber
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