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Re: upgrading only a few packages from sid into a woody-system



On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 11:50:04AM +0200, Marco Herrn wrote:
> I'm running a woody system but need to get a few packages from sid. How can
> I achieve this without upgrading the whole system?
> I want to upgrade via apt-get.
> 
> Do I only have to point my sources.list to a woody *and* a sid mirror? I
> want that an apt-get upgrade only fetches woody packages.
> But how do I call apt-get to fetch the packages I want from sid?

Have a look at some of the very recent discussion on this list about
pinning apt to testing.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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