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Re: apt-get trouble issues



On 08/05/03 Paul Johnson did speaketh:

> Looks like what eventually happens when you're running stable but are
> pinning packages from testing or unstable.  If this is the case,
> either move to testing or unstable or reinstall stable and *don't pin
> with stable at all*.  Use backports instead, look at apt-get.org for
> backports.

    Can you backport manually? ie. with rpms you can take the src rpm
and build it on an older release. How would that be done with a .deb
source file?

    Mike

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