Dear People,
I just installed apt 0.5.3 (compiled on potato). I was hoping it would
help me in fetching sources. My current sources.list points
for binaries (deb) to stable
for sources (deb-src) to stable and testing
I see that there exists the new option
apt-get source slrn=0.9.6.2-9potato1 (version in stable)
or
apt-get source slrn=0.9.7.1-5 (version in testing)
and it will fetch them correctly, provided the appropriate lines exist in
sources.list, as they do in mine.
Howver, I would much rather do
apt-get source slrn/stable
and
apt-get source slrn/testing
as is apparently possible for binaries (but seemingly not for sources) as
I don't in general know the version numbers, unless I go on the web and
look them up. This is not so much an issue at the moment, since I can do
dpkg -l slrn
and find the stable version that way, and the default version is testing,
so just
apt-get source slrn
works for the testing version. But this is clumsy. Also, I was thinking of
adding a deb-src line for unstable, and then how would I get the version
for testing short of looking on the web?
I have read the available documentation forward and sideways, and don't
see anything obvious I am missing.
I'd be grateful for any suggestions.
Incidentally, the -t option doesn't seem to work with apt-get source
either.
Sincerely, Faheem Mitha.