Re: evolution 1.2

[raphaello-ilsole24@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