Re: apt-get? non stable debs?
On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 01:45:55PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 08:30:19AM +0200, Stephen Rueger wrote:
> > > Would you edit your sources.list to point to "testing"...
> > > apt-get update
> > > apt-get install packagename
> > > edit sources.list back to "stable"...
> > > apt-get update
> >
> > No, you wouldn't. The only thing you would get is a seriously broken
> > box.
>
> Absolutely not. This works quite well. Be aware that all the
> dependencies for whatever package you 'install' would be pulled in as
> well. This will possibly upgrade some libraries, but that should not be
> problematic.
>
> I have done this on a whole mess of machines. For example, I wanted
> bind9, so I installed it from woody. apt-get installed its dependencies
> as well, but that is no problem. The machine has run fine since I did
> this several months ago.
You've been lucky... see what happens if it pulls the new perl in.
I've spend some time in #debian over at OPN and have seen quite a few
people doing such silly things. Sometimes it works, but in most cases
it breaks, and it breaks really hard. So be warned and careful with
what you recommend to do.
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to install testing or unstable packages on your potato Debian system.
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