Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 03:06:33PM -0500, D-Man wrote: >> I don't think that can be done. Woody (unstable) is based on glibc >> 2.2 while potato is based on glibc 2.1. Thus any binaries for woody >> that use the C library at all won't run (even if you get them to >> install) on potato. > >Seems to work for me when I install lone woody packages on my potato boxes.
It depends on the package. Some are built against glibc 2.1 and some against 2.2, since developers - and autobuilders - don't have to be running unstable. >Unfortunately, I don't know of any way to do this easily - there doesn't seem >to be any way to tell apt, "Keep the system up to date with potato, except >for packages foo, bar, and baz, which should be woody." There will be, come apt 0.4. Packages are available from http://people.debian.org/~jgg/apt/, though I have no idea how stable they are. You can reportedly do things like 'apt-get install foo=woody'. >The closest I've come is: > >- Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point at potato >- apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade >- Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point at woody >- apt-get update ; apt-get install foo bar baz That, I think, is the best advice for current apt, though if you're tracking potato you'll need to point sources.list back to potato again at the end. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
