On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 06:03:55PM -0400, dman wrote: > Sometimes I point my sources at sid. Not all packages are in woody > (eg galeon, recent gnucash). I adjust source.list, run 'apt-get > update' to update the database, 'apt-get install <foo>' to install > foo, put sources.list back, run 'apt-get update' to update the > database. This last "update" makes the woody stuff be the newest that > is known (aside from the installed stuff).
I used to do this. Do not. Check "man 5 apt_preferences". It is much more reasonable to have testing as default (Say pin 700) and unstable as pin 600, stable as pin 500. List all 3 sources in sources.list. If you really nead to upgrade to unstable, you can do that with: # apt-get -u -t unstable dist-upgrade See my web page below for some of my experiences. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/ +
