Re: apt-get and dists

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

deb-user@LuftHans.com wrote:
>I've got a box running stable with apt 0.5.3 out of testing. It appears that
>the lists dir has moved from /var/state/apt/ to /var/lib/apt/.
>
>This version allows apt-getting a specific version of a package as well as a
>package from a specific dist, e.g. stable, testing, unstable.
>
>It appears, however, that all of the package lists get shoved into
>/var/lib/apt/lists/ so that after adding testing or unstable to sources.list
>dist-upgrades will now go to the most recent available packages. This is
>actually what dist-upgrade is supposed to do, I think, but it's not my
>desired behavior.
>
>What I want is to be able to run stable ( or testing ), yet grab specific
>packages from a less stable dist.

Try, for example:

  http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-0105/msg02684.html

>Bug #94061 is a wishlist similar to what I'm looking for, but I want to know
>if I'm just overlooking something.

Bug #94061 is requesting that it be possible to update just certain
package lists in order to save bandwidth on slow links, which is
somewhat different.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]