Re: What's the best way to pull a package from unstable to a Woody system?
On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 22:58, tluxt wrote:
> I want a method that will not cause apt to get confused about this and
> other sw once I install the Sid package.
>
> Specifically: I have kghostview installed on the woody system. That
> sw has a malfunction, and from the bug report info on kghostview I see that
> Sid has a newer package that might fix the problem.
>
> So, how do I get that Sid kghostview on properly, without confusing apt?
>
> Also, where (if anywhere) is the appropriate doc that I could have read
> that explains this concept?
>
> Thank you!
>
> PS: I know there is something about "pinning", but right now I want
> to have (if possible) a less involved way of accomplishing this task.
> So, is there a way to do it without pinning?
I created 2 sources.list files:
# dir source*
lrwxrwxrwx root root 18 Jan 27 18:33 sources.list -> sources.list.woody
-rw-r--r-- root root 516 Jan 27 16:05 sources.list.sid
-rw-r--r-- root root 588 Jan 26 19:46 sources.list.woody
Of course, each sources.list.* refers to the relevant distribution
directories. So, when I want to grab something from sid, I soft
link sources.list -> sources.list.sid, do "apt-get update", and
grab what I want. Then, soft link back to sources.list.woody and
"apt-get update".
If you are only grabbing the same few pkgs out of sid, you could
easily script it.
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