Re: apt-get? non stable debs?
Thanks,
This is what I was looking for.
I will check out woody's apt and the pinning feature.
cheers,
mike
Quoting Derek Gladding <derek_gladding@altavista.net>:
> On Saturday 29 June 2002 10:36 pm, Mike Egglestone wrote:
> > Hi,
> > What would one do if they were running a "stable" box, and wanted
> > a package that was only offered in "testing" or "unstable"?
> >
> > 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
> >
> > Is there a better way to achieve this?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Mike
>
> Yes, it's called "pinning" (don't ask me why...). It allows you
> to keep one distribution selected as the default (i.e. stable), and
> one or more others that are usable if explictly requested. If you
> pull a package from the non-default distribution, all dependencies
> will also be pulled along with it.
>
> Do a google for "preferences" "apt" and "pinning" - it should give
> you all the required info.
>
> If you just want to know what you need to tweak, create a file
> called /etc/apt/preferences that contains the following:
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=stable
> Pin-Priority: 777
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=testing
> Pin-Priority: 333
>
> Then:
>
> - set up your sources.list file to refer to all the distributions
> you're interested in
> - do an apt-get update
>
> Once this has all cooked, you'll be able to use apt-get in two ways:
>
> apt-get <foo>
>
> will pull the stable version of package <foo>
>
> apt-get -t testing <foo>
>
> will pull the testing version of package <foo> and all its dependencies
>
>
> Hope this helps
>
> - Derek
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