Re: What's the best way to pull a package from unstable to a Woody system?
On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 03:10, tluxt wrote:
> --- Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@home.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 22:58, tluxt wrote:
[snip]
> > 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.
>
> Thanks for the info!
>
> I am concerned, though, that this method might somehow confuse
> apt: It wouldn't know, after you switched the sources.list, that it used
> to be pointing to the other distribution. Then, if there are package
> depends, it might start pulling in packages that conflict with other
> packages.
>
> Do you know for sure that your method wouldn't cause apt to get confused?
> If so, how do you know? If not, how can we find out the answer to that
> question? :)
The final "apt-get update" ensures it.
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