Re: APT and stable/unstable packages
On 02 Dec 2000 22:14:57 EST, mikpolniak said:
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> On Sat, 2 Dec 2000 19:04:14 -0800 (PST), Yuri Niyazov said:
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> > Please reply to my email address also, I am not subscribed to the list yet.
> > I am currently running a hacked and hacked-over again old unstable version of 2.2.
> > On a separate partition I am now installing 2.2 stable, and have a question: I have an NVidia
> > graphics card that requires XFree86 4.0 to run comfortably. For my current setup I installed
> > Xfree86 4.0 binary .tgz from their website, replaced the debian xfree86 packages with dummy
> > equivalents - used the equivs package if memory serves me right, and had very few problems.
> > However, now, to make my maintenance chore easier, I would like to use the XFree86 4.0 packages
> > from unstable, but those are the only packages that I want to use, I do not want to install any
> > other unstable packages. Re-configuring apt to get unstable doesn't seem to be like a great idea
> > since I run apt-get dist-upgrade weekly to get the updates on stable packages, if any. If I leave
> > it at unstable, it will convert my system to unstable. I do not know if it is possible to download
> > the unstable package list, upgrade a few packages, and then revert to the stable package list -
> > what will happen to the packages downloaded from unstable the next time I run apt-get update and
> > then dist-upgrade. Also, I wouldn't mind downloading the XFree86 packages manually, but keeping
> > track of all of their "requires" manually is error-prone, I don't think I want to attempt that
> > again.
> >
> I just did apt-get update with sources.list pointing to stable-
> potato and XFree86 is now in stable version 4.0.1-7. I am running
> this version which i istalled a week ago from unstable.
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I forgot to mention my sources.list also points to 'proposed
updates' so this is where the XFree86 is coming from.
The unstable version of XFree86 is 4.0.1-9.
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