* Jeff Cours ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021209 11:01]: > I generally manage packages using dselect. I'm running testing, but > would like to pick up a package or two from unstable (namely, Mozilla > 1.2.1, rather than the 1.0.0 that's in stable). However, I'd still > like the machine to be mostly based on testing and stable. Is there a > way to tell dselect to show me available packages from unstable? Or is > that something people generally use apt-get to do? Here is my current > /etc/apt/preferences
I highly recommend giving aptitude a whirl. It handles this setup much better than dselect. Dselect doesn't have knowledge of apt's preferences, whereas aptitude will show you all available versions of a package and automatically select your preferred one, leaving you the option of interactively selecting newer versions. Its handling of depends, reverse-depends, and multiple versions is really great. > I'm a little concerned with the idea of bumping up unstable's priority > because I don't want to upgrade everything to unstable, just selected > packages. Right, that's the whole point of using preferences. Otherwise you might as well just go mucking with sources.list. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." -- Barry Goldwater
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