Re: What's the best package manager for single-package upgrades?
--- Joe Rhett <jrhett@isite.net> wrote: > Okay, this
is probably a bonehead user question but
> I'm just getting used
> to Debian. Not normally a bonehead :-(
>
> I would like/prefer to run 'stable'. Debian/Woody
> installed on my laptop
> perfectly fine. Wireless/WEP, IPsec, X all up and
> running SWEET.
>
> Unfortunately, the stable browser is 'zilla 1.0 :-(
>
> I would like to run a modern Mozilla, without
> updating the whole universe
> if possible. I've done the documented steps for
> accessing unstable
> (testing doesn't have anything newer) and rerun
> apt-get update and it sees
> the packages just fine. But when I try to upgrade
> mozilla it wants to
> install 293 packages ... uh, no.
>
> The man page indicates that apt-get upgrade doesn't
> handle single package
> upgrades -- to use dselect. Well dselect gets way
> way lost inside a tree I
> can't find my way out of. I spent an hour trying to
> make dselect happy,
> and I'm still lost.
>
> So finally I just went to the package directly using
> mozilla. It tells me
> of the dependancies, but allows me to download
> directly. But then kpackage
> barfs because it wants all the dependancies.
>
> Am I really supposed to spend all night long
> manually downloading all the
> dependancies? Ugh.
>
> So I am writing here in hopes I'm overlooking
> something. Please, tell me
> how one can update just one package and its
> dependancies, without doing a
> full-on conversion from Woody to unstable? If a
> single package forces one
> to upgrade completely to unstable branch, then the
> entire purpose of the
> trees appears to be a moot point.
>
> Now -- skip the download and compile yourself. No
> fun. And skip the
> 'download the 'zilla net installer and use that' --
> because I already have.
> But I want to know how to solve this problem and
> stay within the Debian
> framework.
>
Joe,
If you want to upgrade just Mozilla in Woody rather
than the whole host of things that Sid suggests you're
going need to look at backports, take a look at
www.apt-get.org but beware that using a range of
backported products together can seriously mess your
system up...
If you think you might want to upgrade other packages
in the future - and why not, Woody is *old* and most
people happily run Sid on their desktops - you should
look at dist-upgrading to Sid
HTH.
> --
> Joe Rhett
> Chief Geek
> JRhett@Isite.Net
> Isite Services, Inc.
>
>
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