On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 11:40:03AM -0500, Barry Hawkins wrote: > List, > In reading the last batch of commit updates from the X Strike Force, > it looked like there might be sid packages for XFree86 4.3? Is that > so? I am using the following entries in my sources.list: > [...] > deb http://http.us.debian.org/ ../project/experimental main > deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/ ../project/experimental main
Those are sufficient. > Are there any other entries that would be more preferable for > getting 4.3 packages to use on a sid installation? If I run apt-cache > policy xserver-sfree86, here's what I get: > > localhost:~# apt-cache policy xserver-xfree86 > xserver-xfree86: > Installed: (none) > Candidate: 4.2.1-14 > Version Table: > 4.3.0-0pre1v4 0 > 1 ftp://ftp.debian.org main/binary-powerpc/ Packages > 1 http://http.us.debian.org ../project/experimental/main > Packages > 4.2.1-14 0 > 500 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages > 500 ftp://debian.mirrors.pair.com unstable/main Packages > > Thanks in advance for your time. You're encountering apt's default "pinning" policy. See apt_preferences(5). You can either muck with the pinning configuration, or do something like this: apt-get install xserver-xfree86/experimental You'll have to specify several other X package names manually using the latter method. "COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | grep 4.2.1-" is likely a good way to identify your current set of installed XFree86 packages. -- G. Branden Robinson | Measure with micrometer, Debian GNU/Linux | mark with chalk, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | cut with axe, http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | hope like hell.
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