Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > > >>Time for another plug for APT's wonderful pinpointing feature. > > > > > > Perhaps you could explain in a little more detail what this is? > > > > I've explained it in all detail here so many times that I'm tired to do it > > again. See apt-get(8), in particular the --target-release option and the > > paragraph with the install command about how to install specific versions. > > I thought this might be what you are referring to, but I'm not sure how > much it helps, at least in the case of my xemacs woes. I *am* doing this, > I've got my default distribution set to testing, and am using apt-get > install foo/unstable to pull specific things from unstable. That much > is nice The problems I've found are: > > a) It's a slippery slope. Installing anything from unstable tends to pull > in more stuff from unstable based on dependencies. > > b) As new packaged versions come into unstable and testing, they chase out > the old versions that were there, so if you update and then find out you > are worse off, I'm not sure how I can roll back to a version that is no > longer in the archives...
You install it from /var/cache/apt/archives/ and set it on hold. Or you could try packages from stable... it all depends on your needs. Be creative. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
