Re: Are the experimental GNOME2 debs any good?
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 01:29:41PM -0400, David Teague wrote:
> I read the man page for apt-get, but the action of -t is NOT made clear
> there. In that man page I see the options
>
> -t
> -target release
> -default-release
>
> Then there is explanation that seems to apply to the last of these items,
> but not the first two. (Probably my ignorance.)
>
> Please point me to a document that will explain the behavior of apt-get,
> especially in this setting. Of course I would not reject any explanation
> you might give, but I'd like something else to read besides that terse man
> page. (After you have learned it, man pages are WONDERFUL, but not at
> first :(
I have no good pointer for you. I learned the little I know after
reading this mailing-list.
> Finally, how do I restrict action to updating my gnome to gnome2 and
> its dependencies?
If you don't specify the -t option you are not contamined by
experimental packages (because experimental has a lower priority than
other debian archives). So if you want to get only the gnome2 packages
out of experimental, you need to ask for them specifically (apt-get
install -t experimental ...) or use the gnome2 meta package (apt-cache
show gnome2) but this package is not always uptodate and you can't
decide to install less than what is decided by it.
Christophe
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