Re: Maintaining a mixed system
on Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 01:54:56PM -0500, Seth Williamson (seth@swva.net) wrote:
> I am a total noob and I hope this question is not something so obvious
> that it's been hammered to death on this list.
>
> I am running stable and I want to stay here. Life is good on stable.
> Everything Just Works, and that's why I came to Linux in the first
> place.
>
> However, for a few--a very few--apps, I would like to run versions that
> are newer. I'm not talking a lot here. Probably Evolution, Galeon,
> Abiword, and that's it. Otherwise I'd like to run everything stable.
>
> Can somebody tell me how to modify my sources.list file to get this
> done, and what the command would be to update those particular apps? At
> the moment I have the standard sources.list file that comes with a
> Libranet 2.7 install. Thanks...
It's possible to do this. But...
- stable => testing/unsable is a big step. You might want to consider
switching to 'testing' for a desktop/workstation. It's relativley
stable, but keeps up with more recent software.
- The packages you're looking at tracking -- evo and galeon in
particular, are *not* trivial, and have extensive and deep
dependencies. Trying to bridge stabe => testing/unstable will be
difficult if it's possible at all.
- Fighting the packaging system in the manner you're describing is
generally not recommended. It can be possible, but raises
headaches. If you want testing/unstable packages, go to
testing/unstable.
- Because the delta between testing and unstable is far smaller than
that between stable and testing, it's more feasible to pin between
testing/unstable.
Peace.
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