Hello! On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:15:14PM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > Well, the problem with upgrading one or two packages is that you run into > dependencies problems: if you upgrade something simple, but it requires a new > version of a library that isn't quite compatible with an older library that > some other non-upgraded software depends on, you've got problems.
That's a reasonable concern - but you asked .... > > On Thursday 19 July 2001 22:56, Kevin van Haaren wrote: > > I run stable on my box, but i want one or two packages from testing. > > What's the best way to maintain this kind of setup? Currently I use > > dselect to get any updates/security releases to packages. > > So you want to leave stable ... > > Am I correct in assuming that if I just list testing in my > > sources.list the next time i run dselect it'll want to upgrade all > > the packages I have installed (that have upgrades available)? I think it would be possible to mix for instance if you work with two different /etc/apt/sources.list, one for stable and one for testing (only one at a time named sources.list would be active). A good idea would be to get deeper in apt-get's and dpkg's usage (see man-pages). Do apt-get update every time after a change of sources.list. But as mentioned before, be careful, I messed up my installation in former days that way };(). Cheers -- mfg Georg Koss mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
