On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 06:31:24PM -0800, David Rothenberger wrote: > >>I obviously want to track stable (since this server needs to be > >>secure), but there are a few packages that I want from testing or > >>unstable. How to do this? Hi Dave, from those at debian-on-high, it is recommended to follow your tract. On stable, which is the recommended one for production systems, is known to be 'a bit old', you have 2 good optinons: backports and source. backports is a unofficial site that makes debs of certain popular (admin) packages. then there is the debian source packages. the idea that both of these is to compile a package against stable libraries to produce something that can be installed on a stable system and not require you to install testing or unstable debs which would require you to upgrade the dependencies to testing/unstable deb and thus mess with you stable system. > > > > > >This message from the recent archives should be helpful: > > > >http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/debian-user-200401/msg06198.html > > IIUC, that messages describes how to install binary packages. In fact, > the whole thread seemed to focus on that. The Debian Reference (section > 6.4.10) suggests that it's better to compile from source packages, so you > don't end up upgrading libc, for example. Is this really true? HTH -Kev
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