Re: Best way to upgrade a single app
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 03:50:11 +0200, David Corbin wrote:
> I have a production system, that I do NOT want to migrate to
> testing/unstable. But, I would like to upgrade one particular package
> (spamassassin, in this case) to a more recent version.
>
> What is the recommended way of doing this? Should I just download and
> build the upstream package? Can pinning help me?
I suggest downloading the current sources from testing or unstable and
rebuilding on your box using dpkg-buildpackage. This should work for 80%
or more of all packages in testing and unstable. (The other 20% may be
confused by different dependancies) This way you get .debs for the new
version that you can manage with dpkg.
> P.S. I realize that upgrading any package might require upgrades to
> several other packages.
Downloading the binary that's alreay in sid/sarge will require updating
GLIBC, so I suggest not doing this.
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