Re: .deb packages query.

["Gary Hennigan" <glhenni@sandia.gov>]

"Dave Selby" <dave_arahan@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> I run woody and love its stability, I don't want to goto testing or
> unstable. Sometimes I want to use software that is more up to date
> than woody, an example being a more recient version of wine.
> 
> There are .deb packages avalible but I never use them because I am
> concerned that apt-get will pull in updated libs, etc, etc and before
> I know it I will be running half testing !
> 
> Is there a way of finding out if a .deb is safe to use without pulling
> in loads of updates ?

If you don't specify anything but "stable/woody" in your
/etc/apt/source.list file then there's no way apt-get will pull in
anything but woody packages. 

You can even list all of stable/testing/unstable in your sources.list
and tell apt you want woody by default by setting

        APT::Default-Release "stable";

in /etc/apt/apt.conf.

Also, before you install a package you can run apt-get like:

        apt-get -s install wine

for example, and it'll show you if it's gonna suck in any other
packages.

Gary