On Mon 27 May 2024 at 21:46:24 (+0200), Detlef Vollmann wrote: > On 5/27/24 20:02, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > > # apt install -t=bookworm db-util db5.3-util libc-bin libc-dev-bin > > > > > > > > I can never remember exactly what `-t` really does, but I suspect you'll > > > > need things like > > > > > > > > apt install libc-bin/bookworm > > > > > > To install a single backported (or other release) package, > > > apt-get install packagename/releasename > > > > > > and to install a backported package plus dependencies which > > > are also from that specific release, use > > > apt-get -t releasename packagename > > > > But that's not the whole story of what `-t` does since the above does > > not explain why his attempt to use `-t` to downgrade some packages > > resulted in `apt` saying "<blabla> is already the newest version". > > Sometimes '-t' works for me, and does what I expect, and sometimes > it doesn't.
And, of course, what would interest the list is what it says when it doesn't work. > So I generelly use now the explicit version: > > apt install libc-bin=2.36-9+deb12u7 Cheers, David.
