also sprach nori heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu> [2002.01.06.0746 +0100]: > so why can't i do: > > orange:~# apt-get install spamassassin/unstable > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: Couldn't find package spamassassin/unstable > > ? am i doing it wrong? (currently running potato) apt-get in potato can't handle multiple distributions. first of all, you'd need entries for potato and sid in /etc/apt/sources.list (which i don't think you have since *i* didn't put them there), and second, spamassassin is also in testing and you should really prefer that IMHO unless you want to keep yourself busy with bugreports (this is not to say that spamassassin is particularly bad, it's just a general statement about unstable...). so if you really want to install it, then comment your potato/stable entries in /etc/apt/sources.list and provide similar ones for woody/testing, do the apt-get install, and then revert to stable in sources.list. alternatively you could have deb-src lines from testing and apt-get source spamassassin and then dpkg-buildpackage the thing. that's the way you'd have to do it for packages containing binaries, because of the updated libc in woody, but spamassassin is a script anyway, so it doesn't matter. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck oxymoron: micro$oft works
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