also sprach nori heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu> [2002.01.07.2205 +0100]: > > so if you really want to install it, > > yes, i do; that's why i wrote to the list. you have an irrefutable point, turkey! > > 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. > > seems like it should work. so i replace the lines, apt-get update, > and then it tries instead to delete half my packages: that's the problem with apt in potato, it can't pin. do you still have that debian.madduck.net line in /etc/apt/source.list? i could offer a kernel update and the package compiled and ready for potato... > and why should it try to REMOVE gmp, gnucash, wmakerconf, xmms, > xscreensaver, and all those?? not wanting to trash all those and have > to re-install them, i hit 'no'. you are doing apt-get upgrade and it tries to upgrade to woody. if you want to do that, do apt-get -u dist-upgrade, but if you don't, remove the testing lines from sources.list again and do an apt-get update. > > alternatively you could have deb-src lines from testing and apt-get > > source spamassassin and then dpkg-buildpackage the thing. > > my deb-src lines already are from testing, for some reason. hm. *i* put them there. the only times *i* use deb-src is for getting stuff from the next higher release to be compiled for potato's libc. > well, ignoring the fact that i have no idea how to dpkg-buildpackage get the source, cd into the dir, do dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot and sit back. if you have all -dev dependencies met (which you probably have since spamassassin is arch-independent and i think i left the dpkg-dev stuff on your machine), it'll just do some magic and leave you with a *.deb in .. > apt-get sourcing does the following: > > orange:~# apt-get source spamassassin > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/security.debian.org_debian-security_dists_testing_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/security.debian.org_debian-security_dists_testing_updates_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-f Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/security.debian.org_debian-security_dists_testing_updates_non-f_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_testing_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_testing_updates_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_testing_updates_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://debian.madduck.net testing/main Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/debian.madduck.net_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://debian.madduck.net testing/main Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/debian.madduck.net_debian-non-US_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://people.debian.org woody/main Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/people.debian.org_%7ebunk_debian_dists_woody_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > E: Could not open file /var/state/apt/lists/non-us.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_testing_non-US_non-f_source_Sources - open (2 No such file or directory) well, did you apt-get update all the way through? > my sources.list has the following in it: > > deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security testing/updates main contrib non-f > deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free > deb http://security.debian.org testing/updates main non-free contrib security.debian.org has no testing entries. make that stable. afaik... > deb http://debian.madduck.net/debian testing main > deb http://debian.madduck.net/debian-non-US testing main very good :) > deb http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian woody main adrian doesn't have woody there either (yet). make that potato. > deb-src http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian woody main > deb-src http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian testing main and i think you can safely remove those two... > > i should be able to get spamassassin and the dependencies without > having to upgrade to woody, right? i might just bite the bullet and > upgrade kernels ... kernels? why kernels? releases... the kernel is *absoultely* independent. the kernel is Linux, the rest is Debian. woody is Debian and can be run with any kernel, 1.x, 2.0, 2.2, and 2.4... > if i could figure out how to do *that*. been searching archives and > looking for howtos, and maybe i just suck at locating the fm to r, but > i'm clueless here, on both counts ... i'll show you how if and only if you are going to become a responsible debian maintainer! > tia, and sorry for all these questions, which i'm sure have been > answered at least a billion times before, but the answeres to which i > just can't find, oh well, life on debian-user is sometimes, uhm, repetetive. that's the way it goes. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck scintillation is not always identification for an auric substance.
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