Re: woody apt: dowloading from different releases
On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 11:32:47AM -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.
>
> 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
You need an /etc/apt/preferences file. See the apt_preferences(5) man
page.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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