In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > When thinking about this, I wonder: Is there a way to easily specify and add > versions later than in stable for only specific packages? In other words, is > there some way I can do an apt-get and specify Perl 5.8 (assuming it's > already packaged) without having to move to the testing or unstable branch?
Add the following line to /etc/apt/apt.conf: APT::Default-Release "stable"; With this, apt-get will default to installing packages from stable. To install a more up-to-date .deb if available, simply throw in '-t testing' or '-t unstable' as an argument to apt-get. Works brilliantly. You will of course have to track the branch you want to pull in packages from. For easy version comparison, I'd suggest installing 'apt-show-versions': ~ $ apt-show-versions -a -p perl perl 5.8.0-14 install ok installed perl 5.6.1-7 stable No testing version perl 5.8.0-14 unstable perl/unstable uptodate 5.8.0-14 'No testing version' because I don't track testing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
