Re: Pinning question
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 22:06:48 -0600 Ryan Walters wrote:
> ...
> No, I installed woody's apt, and apt-utils first, as I did read that
> potato's apt didn't do pinning.
>
> You're right though, I'm don't think I'll bother with a mixed system,
> too much hassle. One thing I know will work fine, is using the
> machine purely as an X terminal, using another faster machine with
> more ram to run the actual applications. Kind of defeats the purpose
> of a laptop though I guess, as in that case it would be tied to the
> lan to run X.
You can still have newer packages on an old distribution by getting the
debian sources and producing debian binary packages locally. I've
never tried that, but it seems that's an easy process, accomplished by
only a few (one?) commands.
--
Carlos Sousa
http://vbc.dyndns.org/
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