Re: Question about pool for debian
Thanks Robert:
Ok, if I don't have to do anything as far as changing anything, my next question
is why isn't one of the packages I need available through apt-get install or
dselect. I am still a little confused.
>From what you are stating below, I don't have to change /etc/apt/source.list at
all in order to pull in a package that I need from the pool. However this
doesn't appear to be the case as they are still not available. Example, the
package I am trying to obtain is dbf2sql.
What did I miss or not understand.
Keith
Robert Guthrie wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 March 2001 10:45 am, Keith Elder wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I ran into a situation here at work where we need to use several
> > packages that are in the pool tree. I haven't been keeping up on my
> > debian stuff lately so I wasn't even aware this was available. Anyway,
> > my questions are the following:
> >
> > 1. How do I update /etc/apt/sources.list to include the pool files for
> > apt-get/dselect?
> Absolutely no change is required here. Pools are the headache of mirror
> maintainers and package maintainers. Just
> apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade; apt-get install you-chosen-package
> Don't bother downloading the .deb files, that defeats the purposes of apt.
>
> > 2. Is what is in pool considered stable?
> The pools contail all packages from stable, testing and unstable. The
> "Packages" and "Packages.gz" files list the versions appropriate for the
> various distributions (being stable, testing and unstable).
>
> > 3. What are these files in pool anyway?
> See above.
>
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