On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 17:49:57 -0700, kruton wrote:
> > OK, I'll ask a stupid question. How do you setup
> > the sources.list file
> > so you can use unstable, but install emacs from
> > testing at the same
> > time?
>
> i don't think even testing is working... both testing
> and unstable have the same version number.. so wait
> till the bug is fixed. (or use xemacs as suggested)
The problem is not the emacs21 package but rather its dependency, the
emacs21-common package:
$ apt-cache policy emacs21-common
emacs21-common:
Installed: 21.4a-3
Candidate: 21.4a-3.1
Version table:
21.4a-3.1 0
500 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main Packages
*** 21.4a-3 0
500 http://ftp.nl.debian.org testing/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
21.4a-1 0
500 http://ftp.nl.debian.org stable/main Packages
To answer the question of the parent: You can just add two lines for
testing to your /etc/apt/sources.list, for example
deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
(You don't have to use the Dutch mirror, of course.)
Apt(itude) will still install the unstable packages by default, because
the newer versions of a package always get a higher priority, unless you
specify otherwise in /etc/apt/preferences. ("man apt_preferences")
Then you can tell apt that you want the testing version of emcas21:
apt-get install emacs21=21.4a-3 emacs21-common=21.4a-3
emacs21-bin-common=21.4a-3
After that you just have to avoid attempts to upgrade emacs21-common
until the problem is fixed. (Aptitude seems to be smart enough to notice
the problem and keep the package at the testing version.)
--
Regards,
Florian
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