On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 11:32:26AM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > Hello, > > I've defined stable,testing and unstable URLs in my sources.list file. > After apt-get update, seems apt-get will only deal with the latest version > of packages or sources. Is there any way to specify a specific > tree(stable,testing,unstable) of a specific package? > > Say, I'd like to get the source of php4 in the Debian stable tree, but > I've defind testing and unstable trees in my sources.list, what should I > do?
$ apt-get source php4/testing should work, but doesn't. It says "unable to find a source package for php4/testing" ... I'm looking at the pool directory and the source for 4.0.100 (the version in testing) is there ... so you could always download it manually and use dpkg-source to unpack. However, it seems like apt-get should be able to do it ... After reading the man page a few times, I tried $ apt-get source php4=3:4.0.100-1 and it works!! Use "apt-cache show <pkgname>" and look for the "Version:" tag to see what you need to put after the = char (make sure you're looking at the correct entry; "apt-cache show" shows info for all the releases it knows about. In the case of php4 with my sources.list this means I have 4 entries (sid, woody, potato, security). This is cool! I learned something today :) Regards, -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Patton
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