on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 03:47:47AM +0100, Radu Muschevici (ext2@gmx.ch) wrote: > is it posible to have two distro lines in /etc/apt/sources.list > like this: > > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib > > and prevent apt from taking every package from unstable since it > has the newer version. > > I want to run testing and only manually pick certain packages from > unstable, like kde packages by entering something like: > > apt-get install kdebase/unstable > > how is this possible? Generally it's not a good idea to mix and match between different Debian release versions. You *can* do this, but results vary, and you'll almost always have issues in dependencies for downstream updates. Better IMO to decide whether or not you want the overall features of the stable, unstable, or testing paths, and stick to that. Note that nominally, testing is unstable minus ten days and bugs. Alternatives include building latest-release packages from sources, downloading directly from the maintainer, or packaging them yourself into local debs. There are command-line options to apt-get to temporarily select another archive source if you so chose. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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