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Re: installing unstable package in woody



On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 12:12:18AM +1200, Paul William wrote:
> There is an unstable/testing package (firehol) that I need to install on
> a woody system. I do not think there will be any dependency problems. Is
> this possible? Will dpkg allow me to install a testing package on woody?

dpkg is completely agnostic of distributions; only higher-level package
acquisition tools care. It does appear that you can install this
*particular* package from unstable on a stable system, yes.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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