Re: Maintaining a mixed system
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 01:54:56PM -0500, Seth Williamson wrote:
> I posted the message below on the Libranet list and got some helpful
> replies. However, I was not sure about a few of the ramications on
> suggestions that I got, and I thought I would post it here and see what
> help I might get. Libranet, as probably everybody here knows, is a
> specific packaging of Debian.
...
> 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.
To do this you ahve 2 choices:
1) Upgrade those package and library packages used by them (libc6 retc.)
2) recompile in stable environment.
1) can be done with libranet/debian mix but not simple. If you knew
how (*See below), you can do it much easily just with debian.
So change sources to debian stable or testing and upgrade :)
Lern to move to debian proper :) My reference below (Chapter 6 may
help)
2) This is right way but why bother when binary exists :)
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* can some one tell exact /etc/apt/preferences for his need?
(Below is my guess and not tested at all)
Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=stable
Pin-Priority: 500
Package: libc6
Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing
Pin-Priority: 600
Package: locale
Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing
Pin-Priority: 600
Package: galeon
Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing
Pin-Priority: 600
Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing
Pin-Priority: 60
Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 50
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