On Monday July 31, 2006 5:38 pm, Stephen Cormier wrote: > On Monday 31 July 2006 14:10, Pollywog wrote: > > I looked in the APT tutorial and also in a book but I could not find an > > answer to this problem. > > > > I want to get a source package from the "testing" release, not from > > "stable", so I did this: > > > > apt-get -t testing source <packagename> > > > > It does not seem to work. Is there a way to do this without temporarily > > modifying the sources.list in order to get the desired sources? > > Try apt-get source packagename=1.2.3-4 use whatever the version number is > for testing.
I didn't think of that one. I have my system pinned and I have stable, unstable, and testing sources (deb-src) in my sources.list and also some unofficial sources such as backports and debian-multimedia, but 'apt-get -t <release> source <package>' wasn't working. I had to remove all deb-src lines except those I needed and then copy from a backup file when I was done getting the source packages. thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
