Ross, I've done what you're describing with apt-get.
I have the woody sources in sources.list, but commented out until I want a single package. Then I uncomment the woody lines and do... apt-get install <single package name> And it just gets the most up to date version which is usually in woody. For instance, Postgresql 7. montefin Ross Boylan wrote: > > I'm interested in pulling a package or two out of woody. sources.list > doesn't seem to allow such fine-grained control. > > What's the usual way of doing this? > > By the way, I've also taken Helix desktop, which I understand means my > system is pretty woody anyway, though it's trying to be potato. > > I'm interested in the zope 2.2 packages and aaalib.. which helix's > gimp needs. > > Thanks.
