On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 03:50:11 +0200, David Corbin wrote: > I have a production system, that I do NOT want to migrate to > testing/unstable. But, I would like to upgrade one particular package > (spamassassin, in this case) to a more recent version. > > What is the recommended way of doing this? Should I just download and > build the upstream package? Can pinning help me?
I suggest downloading the current sources from testing or unstable and rebuilding on your box using dpkg-buildpackage. This should work for 80% or more of all packages in testing and unstable. (The other 20% may be confused by different dependancies) This way you get .debs for the new version that you can manage with dpkg. > P.S. I realize that upgrading any package might require upgrades to > several other packages. Downloading the binary that's alreay in sid/sarge will require updating GLIBC, so I suggest not doing this. -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 6/10/2003. If you use GPG, *please* see me about signing the key. ***** My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
