On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 04:51:43PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Fri, 07 Feb 2003 05:08:18PM +0000, Colin Watson insinuated: > > Yes, you'd have to build it and libgphoto2 from source. I think you > > could safely try whatever version's in the tree you're using, though > > - I don't know a lot about gphoto2, really, but I don't get the > > impression that A40 support is bleeding-edge. > > do what? build what from source? all i did to get the latest gphoto > to was: > > orange:~# apt-get install --reinstall gphoto2 -t sid > > all dependencies automatically resolved ...
I think installing packages from unstable while running an older release is typically a very bad idea. You're pulling in a new glibc, so you get 90% of the instability that presumably you're trying to avoid by running the older release, and you don't even have the benefit of most of the newer software. Plus it's not such a well-tested configuration. As a result, I don't use this approach, and never recommend it unless I know that the package in unstable has no dependencies outside whatever the person I'm talking to is running. Building from source is not usually too hard nowadays, and in the cases where it is somebody has usually done the hard work of backporting already. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
