Olaf Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > The reason is called 'stable' ;-) > > Debian does not put new versions into stable. It just allows security > fixes to be made to it. Okay, ocassionally a new upgrade (e.g. 2.2r1 to > 2.2r2) may fix some serious breakage as well, but that's about it.
Indeed. > If you want more recent versions of various packages, point yourself at > 'testing' or 'unstable'. My nmap is 2.54.22.BETA-2 (from testing) which > beats your 2.53. The preference functionality in apt should let you pull > down only selected packages from testing and/or unstable. I don't know if > potato's apt already supports this though. FWIW, one way that I used until I recently converted this whole box up to Testing was to have sources that came from unstable/testing/secure/stable in that order, while binary packages only came from secure/stable in that order. Hence, if I wanted a newer version I didn't have to dist-upgrade the whole box, but could (normally) build on stable. HTH, ~Tim -- 01:01:40 up 7 days, 5:05, 13 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |There's a lighthouse, Shining in the black, http://piglet.is.dreaming.org |A lighthouse, Standing in the dark
