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Re: pulling packages from multiple releases



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Don Raikes schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> As a maintainer of a LiveCD, I have built the cd based on lenny 5.0.2, and want to stay with that as my base system, however, there are several packages I would like to be able to pull from sid/squeeze. I realize these are not "stable" packages, but they are stable enough for my purposes.
> 
> Is there a good way to do this?  I tried modifying my sources.list file, but then I ran into dependency problems with some older packages I really needed, so had to rebuild the system.

Hello,

have you searched for the versions on backports.org? Those versions are
backported to stable and then you will not run into dependency problems.

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