* George Borisov <george@dxsolutions.co.uk> [2006-06-01 11:39]: > Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > > > > I'm about to install sarge on a (production) server of my own, and > > would rather like to have the latest versions of: > > * mysql (5.0) > > * vim (7.0) > > * the Linux kernel (2.6.16) [ppc] > > The latter will probably cause the most problems. The Debian packages of > the later kernels depend on an later version of libc6, with all the > further dependency implications. > > You will probably be able to use the kernels you compile yourself. > > For the rest, you could consider mixing stable and testing (through APT > pinning.) MySQL 5 is definitely in testing and vim 7 will make it there > eventually. Wouldn't mixing stable and testing be less secure than using backports? Or is security support for testing good enough to rely on for (some packages on) production servers? - Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <flx@obfusk.net> http://obfusk.net ~ "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature." ~ -- R. Kulawiec ~ vim: set ft=mail tw=70 sw=2 sts=2 et:
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