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Re: Selective/partial upgrade from Potato -> Woody?



On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Gregory Guthrie wrote:

> I need a few packages which are not in potato, but are in woody.

Ftp them down to your box and dpkg --install them

> Can I do a selective update to get these packages only?

Not easily, and not at all with potato's apt.
 
> OR, if I add woody to the sources.list will dselect, or apt-get, 
> automatically try to get everything that is new; that is what happened to 
> me last time I think.

Yep.  

> Thanks,
> 
> Gregory Guthrie
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> Gregory Guthrie
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> 
> 
> 

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