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

[Christoph Groth <cgroth@gmx.net>]

John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu> writes:

> > Can I do a selective update to get these packages only?
> 
> Not easily, and not at all with potato's apt.

Why not?  It workes perfectly for me:

1. Point your sources.list to woody.

2. an an apt-get update, _don't_ do an apt-get upgrade

3. Install the packages from woody you'd like, apt-get will take care
   of dependencies.  Use apt-get's option -s to see what it is going
   to install.

4. Point sources.list to potato again.

5. Do an apt-get update

Christoph