apt-get and a mixed system

[Matthias Szupryczynski <silk_worm@gmx.net>]

Hi everybody,

I am pretty sure about this, but before I accidentally break the system
I am currently developing on, I thought it would be better to post this.

I am running Woody on my laptop and want to install a certain package
(xine, actually) from Sid, while still keeping the rest of the system in
a stable state. As far as I understood the man-pages and the apt-howto,
what I have to do would be:

- adding 'APT::Default-Release "stable";' to my apt.conf file

- adding the appropriate entries for unstable in sources.list

- execute 'apt-get -t unstable install xine-ui' 
  or
- execute 'apt-get install xine-ui/unstable'

>From what I think, this should upgrade xine and all files which it
depends on to their unstable version, and leave the rest as it is.

Is that, more or less, correct, or have I missed something important ?

Needless to say, I am a bit paranoid regarding unstable when it comes to
the system I am doing my daily work on, and since I never mixed stable
and unstable ... well, you get the idea ;)

Cheers

Matt