On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:19:42PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote:
> Can someone give me an example of how I would upgrade a specific
> package from 'testing' without affecting any of the apt-get libraries?
> If I change the sources.list to include 'testing' then I get all
> kinds of files selected for upgrade. I really don't want to move
[...]
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "selected for upgrade". Are you
using dselect? You shouldn't, if all you want to do is to upgrade a
single package. I can see two ways to solve your problem. I prefer
the quick and dirty approach:
# echo \
"deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/ testing/non-US main contrib non-free" \
>/etc/apt/sources.list
# apt-get update
# apt-get install ssh
after which you have to remember to change sources.list again before
the next installation from stable.
To do it cleanly, you can compile the testing package from source:
# echo \
"deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/ testing/non-US main contrib non-free" \
>>/etc/apt/sources.list
# apt-get update
# cd /usr/local/src/
# apt-get source ssh
# cd openssh-2.5.2p2
# debian/rules build
# dpkg -i openssh_2.5.2p2-3.deb
but for this to work, you will have to install all the necessary *-dev
packages from stable first.
Concerning your upgrade problems: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' would
probably help avoid your system failures on moving from stable to
testing.
Just my 2p - there are probably still better ways to solve your
problem.
All the best
Rolf
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Rolf Heckemann (Dr. med.) Research Fellow
Department of Imaging Hammersmith Hospital, London
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