Re: upgrade; change from unstable to specific distribution?
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
> I added unstable to my apt/sources.list, but want to restrict so that I am
> upgrading to the current new distribution only (I needed a specific
> package), and not always the b-leading edge. Can I just chane from unstable
> to "woody" in teh list?
>
This is my first crack at answering a question on this list, and I've only
been using Debian myself for about a month. I could be full of crap, but
here goes...
The way that I would go about this would be to add the line for the woody
packages to sources.list. Then run apt-get update. This will update the
list of packages that apt-get knows about. Then I'd do 'apt-get install
--reinstall <package-name>' since you're only concerned about a specific
package. After that, you need to comment out the line for woody packages,
then re-run apt-get update.
There might be (read: probably is) a better way to do it, but that's how I'd
do it.
HTH
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Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic
University of Washington http://rcs.ee.washington.edu/ssli
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