Re: installing a mixed system (stable/testing/unstable) under separate directories
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:19:35AM +0200, Alex Polite wrote:
> Package pinning is driving my crazy. Every now and then I just have to
> have something that is only available in testing or unstable. My
> favorite option is to download the source, compile it myself and
> install in /usr/local but every now and then it's a big thing like
> evolution which has a gazillion dependencies.
>
> So I do apt-get -t unstable <package>
>
> Almost without exemption this will lead to hairy dependency
> problems.
>
I find that if I temporarily change the pinning so that
eg., unstable is top choice when I'm upgrading certain
packages with boatloads of dependencies, then immediately
change it back before upgrading anything else (or
doing an update), then most of the dependency problems
are alleviated. It's still worthwhile doing a check
of *all* packages which will be affected before going
ahead, but it works for me, anyway.
--
Mark Kent
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