Do you know about www.apt-get.org? My experience is that if I specify two or more repositories that have the same packages, apt-get/aptitude etc. selects the "latest" by version number to get. Aptitude allows me to "hold" a package, so it's not updated (see aptitude - it's pretty straightforward).
Cheers, Bret On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 10:13, james leclair wrote: > > > > Hello all. Can anyone suggest, or would you even recommend at all for that > matter, some good non-official apt sources for debs that are not officially > supported by the project? Particularly for software that is not available > in any of the current active branches of woody. And while were on the topic > of apt, how could i specify two or more repositories for packages in my > sources file and have it ask me from which one to retrieve from when doing > an update or install? I don't mean in the sense where I provide 2 or more > mirrored repositories for the sake of redundancy and fault tolerance, but > for the sake of say references to both testing and unstable(or in the case > of my original question an official site and a non-official one) in my > sources list and apt requesting me to specify which location to pull from. > I think I may have heard it referred to as "pinning". Is this correct? > Well, thanks in advance to any advice or suggestions any of you may have, I > know you all have an opinion:) This mailing list is great. Long live Debian! -- bwaldow at alum.mit.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
