Hi On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 01:50:50PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > Hi, > > I bookmarked a link in the debian doc, but I lost it. > > I run a Debian testing, but want to add 2 or 3 packages from unstable > and experimental. > > As it is done with backports, is there a clean way to select just some > binary packages? I know I run into some dependencies problems, but I > dont want to entirely switch my distribution to unstable or experimental > just for one package I maintain. > > Also, If you knew the technical term for what I want, that would help me > to search on Internet if I ever loose the bookmark again...
Did you mean this here? http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html Specially Section 3.8 How to keep a mixed system, and section 3.9 How to upgrade packages from specific versions of Debian, and 3.10 How to keep specific versions of packages installed (complex). hth p.s.: sorry that i firstly had replied directly, and not to the list.
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