On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 05:42:37PM -0700, Sebastian Haase wrote: > > I think you should be able to safely install libc6_2.2.5-14. > > > > Put unstable into /etc/apt/sources.list > > apt-get update > > apt-get -s -t unstable libc6 > > > > "-s" will make apt-get simulate changes that would occur if you > > actually did the installation. If changes look OK, rerun apt-get > > without -s option. > > > > Keep track of what gets installed; if you later want to downgrade to > > the previous version of libc6, you can do so using apt's pin > > priorities or with dpkg with --force-downgrade option. > > > > All this looks REALLY scary to me. > I think I don't even like the '-t unstable ' for ANYTHING anymore. > How do you get this to work in the first place ? You need to put (add!) > 'unstable' > into apt/sources.lists -- and then? Who prevents you then from going > 'unstable' > altogether ?? /etc/apt/preferences ?? Yes, that is one way. cat /etc/apt/preference Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 90 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 60 Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 900 The above /etc/apt/preferences will allow you to install packages from sarge and sid with apt-get's -t option. Without -t option installs and upgrades will only come from woody. Another way is to comment out unstable sources after you have installed packages you want. The next apt-get update will not download any info about sid packages. Another alternative is to not change /etc/apt/sources.list at all, download debs from debian mirror, and install with dpkg. > I think the only real solution is to go from source-packages for everything > that's > unstable. (Meaning: I think debian does not support actually mixing unstable > into stable > [if you don't compile it from the source package yourself !!] ) This would be safest approach. Since sid and sarge are still relatively close to woody, this won't be too difficult at present. -- Jerome
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