Re: apt-get testing

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

MaD dUCK <madduck@madduck.net> wrote:
>hey, how can i use apt-get to get something like postfix-0.0.20010228-1
>out of testing? i have testing/main and some other testing's in my
>sources.list, but
>
>apt-get --download-only install testing/postfix
>
>doesn't work,

If you've got apt 0.5.0, postfix/testing is the right syntax; with the
apt currently in stable and testing, neither will work.

>apt-get --download-only install postfix
>
>reports that postfix is already installed...

postfix 0.0.20010228-1 is only in unstable, as several architectures
haven't caught up with building it yet.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]