Re: Sources from Sid & Binaries from Woody
Holger Rauch <Holger.Rauch@heitec.de> writes:
> Is it safe (in the sense that it won't hose my system) to stay with
> Woody when it comes to the binaries and to add appropriate deb-src
> lines to /etc/apt/sources.list for the latest and greatest stuff?
Sure, if you're willing to accept that 'apt-get install' and 'apt-get
source' will get you different versions of things. (And it sounds
like that's your intent.) "The system" doesn't use 'apt-get source'
for anything, though frontends like aptitude use an analog to 'apt-get
install'.
(As an alternative, you can put both testing and unstable lines in
your sources.list file and set up /etc/apt/preferences to prefer the
testing version of things. But I don't remember the magic for this;
look at the list archives.)
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