* On Fri Oct 12, 2001 11:32:47 -0400, Bruce Miller wrote: > I am running Libranet 1.191 updated to woody with KDE from sid. > The version of apt in woody has been 0.5.3; as of yesterday, it > upgraded to 0.5.4. > > This version of apt has a feature to download a file from a different > release without changing /etc/apt/sources.list. N.B. The feature is > new as of woody; it does not yet exist in the potato version of apt. > The syntax is: ``apt-get install foobar/release" where release is one > of stable|testing|unstable. I think that you still need to have the woody and sid lines in your sources.list along with the potato lines. I think there is also a file somewhere that you can use to specify the default dist (e.g. get packages from stable unless otherwise stated, etc.) - Tal > > So far, it is not working. If I try to update an existing application, I > get the error message: Release "unstable" for "foobar" was not > found > > If I try to install a new application from the different release, I get > something to the effect that package "foobar" not found. > > Is there something obvious which I am missing? -- Tal Danzig | Libranet GNU/Linux tal@libranet.com | http://www.libranet.com GPG Fingerprint: 8BE6 B973 BC1C 0CA0 CEE5 4874 C741 0BD5 B3A2 5512 Public key available from wwwkeys.pgp.net
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