I think I answered my own question. Poking around at the documentation project's site I found the following:
* aptitude install package/unstable This installs package from the unstable distribution while installing its dependencies from the testing distribution. * aptitude install -t unstable package This installs package from the unstable distribution while installing its dependencies also from the unstable distribution by setting the Pin-Priority of unstable to 990. So I could install Firestarter from unstable, then when finally makes it to testing I could purge what I have and then install it from testing. * aptitude purge bar This removes the bar package together with all its configuration files. On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:41:21 +0000, Ben Bettin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been looking for a nice gui to setup a firewall and monitor > network traffic. After reading through the posts on this and other > lists, I think I'd like to go with Firestarter. However, upon running > aptitude and doing a search I couldn't find any packages for it. > > I went to packages.debian.org and searched for it there, I found the > following: > > ---------- > # stable (admin): gtk program for managing and observing your firewall. > 0.8.2-3woody1: alpha arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc > # unstable (admin): gtk program for managing and observing your firewall > 1.0.0-3: alpha arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel powerpc > 0.9.3-6: s390 sparc > ---------- > > Firestarter isn't packaged for Sarge? I thought in order for > something to make it to stable it had to be in testing and have "run > the gauntlet". I was under the impression that Testing had everything > Stable did, perhaps newer versions, and then some things that have > made it down from Unstable. Could someone explain to me how this came > about, I'm confused why it isn't there? > > I would still like to get Firestarter if it's possible. Are there > other repositories I don't know about? Here's my > /etc/apt/sources.list > > ---------- > #deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib > non-free > deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free > deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ testing main > ---------- > > Is it possible to get a single package from Unstable, like > Firestarter, while still keeping everything else as Testing? If it's > possible to do this in aptitude I'd appreciate instructions for that > as opposed to the command line apt ones. > > Thanks in advance for your advice, I truly appreciate it! > > Ben Bettin > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
