ray p wrote: > > The best way to do it is to either add unstable to your sources do a apt-get > update and then an apt-get install tuxracer and then change your sources back > and do an apt-get update again. You could also just go to www.debian.org and > do a search on the packages download the right debs and install them with > dpkg -i I have installed packages from unstable on my testing box using both > these methods and have yet to have a problem. Just don't forget to change the > sources back. :)
This situation seems to arise frequently for me. Often, I temporarily modify my sources.list to get the latest package from unstable, but typically I want my updates to come from woody. How come there isn't a mechanism in apt that allows you to keep stable/testing/unstable references in sources.list, specificy one as a default, and then allow you to access others from the command line, something like: apt-get --dist=unstable install ... for example. Or is this possible and I'm missing out? Maybe it's something for an apt wishlist...
