On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 08:50:25AM -0400, Evan Van Dyke wrote: > Joe Emenaker wrote: > > > > For a long time, I've had a policy of updating my servers from stable *and* > > unstable because I wanted the newly packaged stuff but also, more > > importantly, because I wanted bug fixes for security holes asap... without > > having to wait for the next official release of Debian. *snip* > > Is there anyway to use unstable *only* for the packages that *don't* exist > > in "stable"? *snip* > Potato is based on glibc2.1. Slink is glibc2.0... so from what I've read > on many other posts here, it's a BadIdea(tm) to try and mix these due > to the different glibc dependencies. >
What I would do, had I not already taken the plunge to potato, would be to download the source of apt from potato, compile and install it. Then I could add a deb-src line to /etc/apt/sources.list specifying potato, and from then on, any packages I wanted from unstable I could fetch with apt-get source --compile <package>, while any packages fetched with apt-get install would continue to download from slink as normal, and I would solve any glibc2.1 problems as well as having the updated packages. frankie -- ,-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. > Frankie Fisher | Drum'n'Bass tunes and samples. > < > frankie @ skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk | > http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk/< > PGP Key available on request. | > < `-----------------------------------------------------------------------------'
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