Re: Mixing woody and sarge

["Benedict Verheyen" <linux4bene@pandora.be>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jamin W. Collins" <jcollins@asgardsrealm.net>
To: "Debian User" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: Mixing woody and sarge


> If you don't set a Default Release or any other pinning configuration,
> the next time you do an upgrade many of your installed packages will
be
> upgraded to the version available in testing, provided they don't
> require the installation of any additional packages or the removal of
> any.  However, if a dist-upgrade is used instead your system will be
> wholely upgraded to testing.

I wonder if you could get away with this by pinning libc6 and say perl
and some other important stuff. Or would that just result in apt not
wanting to install the package from testing since one of it's
dependencies
aren't met?

Regards,
Benedict