On Sat, 2 Dec 2000 19:04:14 -0800 (PST), Yuri Niyazov said:
> Please reply to my email address also, I am not subscribed to the list yet.
> I am currently running a hacked and hacked-over again old unstable version
> of 2.2.
> On a separate partition I am now installing 2.2 stable, and have a question:
> I have an NVidia
> graphics card that requires XFree86 4.0 to run comfortably. For my current
> setup I installed
> Xfree86 4.0 binary .tgz from their website, replaced the debian xfree86
> packages with dummy
> equivalents - used the equivs package if memory serves me right, and had
> very few problems.
> However, now, to make my maintenance chore easier, I would like to use the
> XFree86 4.0 packages
> from unstable, but those are the only packages that I want to use, I do not
> want to install any
> other unstable packages. Re-configuring apt to get unstable doesn't seem to
> be like a great idea
> since I run apt-get dist-upgrade weekly to get the updates on stable
> packages, if any. If I leave
> it at unstable, it will convert my system to unstable. I do not know if it
> is possible to download
> the unstable package list, upgrade a few packages, and then revert to the
> stable package list -
> what will happen to the packages downloaded from unstable the next time I
> run apt-get update and
> then dist-upgrade. Also, I wouldn't mind downloading the XFree86 packages
> manually, but keeping
> track of all of their "requires" manually is error-prone, I don't think I
> want to attempt that
> again.
>
I just did apt-get update with sources.list pointing to stable-
potato and XFree86 is now in stable version 4.0.1-7. I am running
this version which i istalled a week ago from unstable.
