Re: pulling packages from sid/squeeze
Donald Raikes wrote:
> In my attempts to build a debian livecd with all the tools I want, I
> have discovered that some of the tools reside in the sid/squeeze
> repositories not in the lenny repo.
use or create backports for those that are not already available on
backports.org or backports.undebian.org.
pinning is not recommended for arch depended packages, it will pull more
in than you want, which results in a system less consistent and often
more broken than using testing in the first place.
> Is there a way to build a basic lenny livecd, but include these packages
> from the other repositories?
see documentation/references of config/chroot_sources mechanism on the
mailinglist archive.
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