Re: how to upgrade modutils

[Andrew Sharp <andy@netfall.com>]

Thanks, guys.

The install thing was probably on the right track, but didn't do
anything either, except give me an error message which I probably
deserved.  All the other stuff (messing with sources.list) was way
too complicated, so I just downloaded the source and built it on my
machine.  Duh.  It was quite easy.  Kind of like being back in
freebsd land. ~:^) I don't think this is what I did on the other
machine, but then if I could remember what I did, I wouldn't be
having this conversation.

a

Peter Cordes wrote:
> 
> On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 12:18:41PM -0700, Matt Brubeck wrote:
> > On Sat, 19 May 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote:
> >
> > > # apt-get upgrade modutils/unstable
> > >
> > > but that ends up doing nothing.
> >
> > I believe this should be "apt-get install modutils/unstable"
> > but I am away from my Debian box at the moment and can't be sure.
> 
>  Yup, that's it.  You have to list an unstable package repository in your
> sources.list before that will do anything, though.  When you do that, you'll
> want to put APT::Default-Release "testing"; in apt.conf, unless you want to
> upgrade everything to unstable.  If a package has deps that can only be
> satisfied by upgrading some other packages to unstable, you can use
> apt-get -t unstable  install foobar
> 
>  The main reason I run testing instead of unstable is so that I don't have
> to spend my time dealing with broken pre/post inst scripts, so I don't mind
> running a few packages from unstable, even if they are important ones, like
> libc :)  Ben's probably pretty careful not to break everybody's system with
> a bad libc upgrade, but I could probably hack my way out of any problems if
> they were to occur :)