Re: Firestarter for Testing (Sarge)?

[Ben Bettin <bwbettin@gmail.com>]

I think I answered my own question.  Poking around at the
documentation project's site I found the following:

* aptitude install package/unstable
This installs package from the unstable distribution while installing
its dependencies from the testing distribution.

* aptitude install -t unstable package
This installs package from the unstable distribution while installing
its dependencies also from the unstable distribution by setting the
Pin-Priority of unstable to 990.

So I could install Firestarter from unstable, then when finally makes
it to testing I could purge what I have and then install it from
testing.

* aptitude purge bar
This removes the bar package together with all its configuration files. 


On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:41:21 +0000, Ben Bettin <bwbettin@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been looking for a nice gui to setup a firewall and monitor
> network traffic.  After reading through the posts on this and other
> lists, I think I'd like to go with Firestarter.  However, upon running
> aptitude and doing a search I couldn't find any packages for it.
> 
> I went to packages.debian.org and searched for it there, I found the following:
> 
> ----------
> # stable (admin): gtk program for managing and observing your firewall.
> 0.8.2-3woody1: alpha arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
> # unstable (admin): gtk program for managing and observing your firewall
> 1.0.0-3: alpha arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel powerpc
> 0.9.3-6: s390 sparc
> ----------
> 
> Firestarter isn't packaged for Sarge?  I thought in order for
> something to make it to stable it had to be in testing and have "run
> the gauntlet".  I was under the impression that Testing had everything
> Stable did, perhaps newer versions, and then some things that have
> made it down from Unstable.  Could someone explain to me how this came
> about, I'm confused why it isn't there?
> 
> I would still like to get Firestarter if it's possible.  Are there
> other repositories I don't know about?  Here's my
> /etc/apt/sources.list
> 
> ----------
> #deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
> deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
> deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ testing main
> ----------
> 
> Is it possible to get a single package from Unstable, like
> Firestarter, while still keeping everything else as Testing?  If it's
> possible to do this in aptitude I'd appreciate instructions for that
> as opposed to the command line apt ones.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your advice, I truly appreciate it!
> 
> Ben Bettin
>