Re: "pinning" a package

2002-11-19 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 08:52:27AM -0500, John Klassa wrote: > I tried to follow the directions, with respect to "pinning" a particular > package. Specifically, I went to the main debian site and poked around > in the package list, and found that "gnump3d" is available in the > "testing" tree (or

Re: "pinning" a package

2002-11-19 Thread sean finney
hi, consider this as an alternative: - put deb-src entries for testing in your sources.list - apt-get update - apt-get source gnump3d -b - dpkg -i gnump3d_.deb i'm not sure how well the dependency-handling works for this, but i've used it to install selected packages from testing onto a stable

"pinning" a package

2002-11-19 Thread John Klassa
I tried to follow the directions, with respect to "pinning" a particular package. Specifically, I went to the main debian site and poked around in the package list, and found that "gnump3d" is available in the "testing" tree (or whatever the correct terminology is[1]). http://packages.deb