On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 22:58, tluxt wrote: > I want a method that will not cause apt to get confused about this and > other sw once I install the Sid package. > > Specifically: I have kghostview installed on the woody system. That > sw has a malfunction, and from the bug report info on kghostview I see that > Sid has a newer package that might fix the problem. > > So, how do I get that Sid kghostview on properly, without confusing apt? > > Also, where (if anywhere) is the appropriate doc that I could have read > that explains this concept? > > Thank you! > > PS: I know there is something about "pinning", but right now I want > to have (if possible) a less involved way of accomplishing this task. > So, is there a way to do it without pinning?
I created 2 sources.list files: # dir source* lrwxrwxrwx root root 18 Jan 27 18:33 sources.list -> sources.list.woody -rw-r--r-- root root 516 Jan 27 16:05 sources.list.sid -rw-r--r-- root root 588 Jan 26 19:46 sources.list.woody Of course, each sources.list.* refers to the relevant distribution directories. So, when I want to grab something from sid, I soft link sources.list -> sources.list.sid, do "apt-get update", and grab what I want. Then, soft link back to sources.list.woody and "apt-get update". If you are only grabbing the same few pkgs out of sid, you could easily script it. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | ! Great Inventors of our time: | ! Al Gore -> Internet | ! Sun Microsystems -> Clusters | +------------------------------------------------------------+
