Quoting james leclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 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! >
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