Re: apt-get pinning ? - Sarge / Stable - only install certain/specific packages from "testing"
Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 04:22:08PM -0700, Willie Wonka wrote:
> > Hi all;
> > I have a few quick questions about how to upgrade ONLY certain apps/pkgs...
>
> Then get the source of newer version and compile it yourself under
> stable environment.
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-system.en.html#s-sourcebuild
>
> This will avoid all library issues. You may need to patch this source
> or upgrade other programs...
>
> You can get good binary and example source from http://www.backports.org/
>
> This is not trivial thing.
>
> Pinning works nicely on simple bash shell and doc packages but I am not
> so much fan when it coms to binary C programs.
>
Thank you for that info;
I will certainly revisit it when I'm feeling bolder once again ;-)
I'm _not_ a programmer/script writer in any sense, and quite new to linux - and
many gaps in knowledge need fulfilling before I can realistically tackle that
kind of a task.
Maybe I can get a 'testbed' box up and running for experimentation on just
these sorts of things...something goes awry - ReImage it ;-)
Regards
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