Re: installing unstable package in woody

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 13:54:14 +0100, 
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote in message 
<[🔎] 20031004125413.GA21809@riva.ucam.org>:

> 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.

..it might however whine about dependencies, juuust like rpm ;-) 
and as those are met, all goes in in the same install command, 
exactly like with rpm.  ;-)

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