heya, i know you can do stuff with 'pinning' in your apt configurations, but i don't know enough about that to give specifics. i'm sure it's been explained on this list a few times anyways, try searching back for apt.conf and pin .
however the quick hack i use is to put deb-src entries for the newer
release, and then apt-get source package -b to make a debian package
out of the source for the package from the newer version. it works
pretty well on smaller packages, though i could see getting into a rut
with build-depends for complicated packages. the nice thing is sense you
only give it the src entries you won't risk accidentally upgrading your
entire system. that failing, there's always /usr/local :)
hth
sean
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 12:25:48AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> I'm still having problems with my ATI card. I know it's worked fine under
> XFree86 4.2, but Woody has X 4.1. How can I upgrade to X 4.2 w/out upgrading
> anything else or moving to unstable?
>
> Hal
>
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