Re: Why sid instead of sarge??

[Nathan E Norman <nnorman@incanus.net>]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 02:49:47AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When trying to get the "sarge" pan source, I get sid source instead.
> Also, I tried "apt-get -t sarge --build source pan" and it gave the
> same results.
> 
> # apt-get -t testing --build source pan
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Need to get 2848kB of source archives.
> Get:1 http://mirrors.kernel.org sid/main pan 0.13.1-5 (dsc) [624B]
> Get:2 http://mirrors.kernel.org sid/main pan 0.13.1-5 (tar) [2408kB]
> Get:3 http://mirrors.kernel.org sid/main pan 0.13.1-5 (diff) [440kB]
> [snip]
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Weird.  I just tried it and I also get the unstable version.  However,
there is a workaround:

Use `apt-cache showpkg pan' to find out what the available versions
are; I see:

  Versions: 
  0.13.1-5(/var/lib/apt/lists/mirrors.midco.net_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages)
  0.13.0-4(/var/lib/apt/lists/mirrors.midco.net_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages)
  0.11.2-1(/var/lib/apt/lists/mirrors.midco.net_debian_dists_woody_main_binary-i386_Packages)

So, 0.13.0-4 is the version you want.  To get it, do

  apt-get source pan=0.13.0-4

I'm looking for the reference, but I remember reading that `apt-get
source' doesn't work the same way as `apt-get install' WRT the -t
switch and pinning.

Hope this helps,

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