On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > On Friday 30 April 2010 12:10:45 James Stuckey wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < >> >> b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: >> > On Friday 30 April 2010 06:16:22 James Stuckey wrote: >> > > The unstable/sid doesn't have to be comment out. Setting the default >> > > release will keep the system tracked to, in this case, testing. >> > >> > Er, mostly. >> > >> > If there is a versioned dependency that can be satisfied from sid but not >> > testing, you will get the package from sid. This shouldn't happen given >> > the >> > way testing is managed, unless you installed at least one package from >> > sid. >> >> I installed eclipse from sid, since there isn't eclipse in testing. > > It may have pulling in some dependencies from Sid, then. > > I know the official line is to use '-t $something' as arguments to apt- > get/aptitude for pulling in packages from Sid/experimental/backports, but I > think it is better to use the '$package=$version' format. (After getting the > version from something like (apt-cache policy $package).) > > My instinct is that '-t $something' effectively increases the priority of all > packages from the $something repository, which may make the dependency > resolver pull more from that repository than is absolutely necessary.
If you are running stable aptitude install <package>/testing will install <package> from testing and try to satisfy dependencies from stable whereas aptittude install -t testing <package> will install <package> from testing and try to satisfy dependencies from testing. I assume that aptitude install <package>=testing_version behaves like aptitude install <package>/testing and that in both these methods the dependencies might not be satisfied (I had that problem in December with Firefox 3.6). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/s2g6d4219cc1004301138i6947c1e1n6c12c267d8e83...@mail.gmail.com
