also sprach Aniruddha <mailingdotlist@gmail.com> [2009.05.18.0954 +0200]:
> Thanks for the answer. And what about downloading an occasional
> package from packages.debian.org? (like the latest swfdec) is this
> more preferable then apt-pinning?
This is more or less identical to pinning, except you are simply
doing it manually, except telling APT. It's worse than APT in that
it doesn't track updates in testing for you.
> With building your own backport you mean using apt-get source in
> a testing/unstable chroot to build a stable package?
In a stable chroot!
> Do you happen to know where I can' find more info about this
> process?
There'll be a large chapter on this in my forthcoming book. Until
then, I suggest you check out the stuff I wrote about pbuilder in
the current book, or investigate pbuilder, or -- if you are not
afraid of a more complex and more powerful approach, investigate
schroot+sbuild in combination with LVM snapshots. I don't have
a document handy, sorry.
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