Quoth David B. Harris, > Since it's generally very unsafe to install testing/unstable binaries on > a Potato system(or mixing binaries of any of the distributions, for that > matter), I'd like to amend this suggestion to the following: > > 'apt-get install unstable foo' > > Compiles package <foo>(therefore lessening the chances of major > breakage), and all the "unstable" dependancies that <foo> requires. If > any of the dependancies are met by your native distribution, they should > be installed in binary form, without compiling.
We already have that... $ grep src /etc/apt/sources.list deb-src http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian unstable main contrib non-free $ apt-get source foo $ cd foo $ debian/rules binary $ cd .. # dpkg --install foo easy! cheers, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches Criminologist/Linux Geek | As my head fell in the basket, http://killfilter.com | And was everybody dancing on the casket... PGP (GnuPG): A136E829 | - TBMG, "Dead"
