Re: evolution 1.2

[raphaello-debianuser@altern.org]

 Thanks for the info: for use of people as newbie as I am, and to avoid
 them the searchings I did, here is how I have found to do (I have
 testing version on my Power Book Wall Street): 
 
 - add in /etc/apt/source.list the lines corresponding to unstable and
 sid
 - I added in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf the line:
 "APT::Default-Release "testing"; "
 but it did nothing good more, so I cancelled it. 
 - I created a file /etc/apt/prefetences, here is it: 
 
  Package: *
  Pin: release a=testing
  Pin-Priority: 900
 
  Package: *
  Pin: release a=unstable
  Pin-Priority: 500
 
  Package: *
  Pin: release o=Debian,a=sid
  Pin-Priority: 200
 
 But when I was doing apt-get update, I was getting an error message: 
 "E: Invalid record in the preferences file, no Package header"
 (I also tried without "o+Debian", same result)
 
 so I cancelled this file as well. 
 
 So, I just added the lines for unstable and sid in source.list. 
 
 Then, I did apt-get install -t sid evolution, and it worked. I got
 evolution 1.2, as I wanted, I had for this to download 25 Mo sources,
 including upgrading for mozilla 1.3 (testing was at 1.0). 
 It looks to work since yesterday. 
 
 Then I cancelled the lines for sid in source.list. 
 
 Handmade, but it worked. 
 




Le jeu 13/03/2003 à 04:25, Chris Tillman a écrit :
> > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 03:19:19AM +0100, you wrote:
> > > Thanks a lot. 
> > > 
> > > Now, a question that will look stupid to many, but useful to 5,9 billion
> > > people that didn't deeply read all the docs ;-) : 
> > > 
> > > I have sarge. Can I use sid version of this program, without using sid
> > > for all the distribution? If yes, how do I install it? 
> > 
> > You can use 
> > 
> > APT::Default-Release "testing";
> > 
> > in your /etc/apt/apt.conf to keep your system mostly
> > at testing (or stable, if that's where you're at) and
> > then use apt-get -t to ask for a given distribution
> > when installing a given package.
> > 
> > But, I suspect a large package like evolution will drag in 
> > some serious dependencies like the sid-version libc6 and
> > a host of others; you might want to use -s first to see
> > what's going to happen.
> > 
> > man apt-get
> > man apt.conf