Re: Best way to upgrade a single app (apt-get update, not upgraded)

2003-08-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 01:05:19PM -0400, David Corbin wrote: > In attempting to follow the suggestion below, I end up with this: > > trombone:/home/dcorbin# apt-get upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages have been kept back > spamassa

Re: Best way to upgrade a single app (apt-get update, not upgraded)

2003-08-23 Thread David Corbin
In attempting to follow the suggestion below, I end up with this: trombone:/home/dcorbin# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back spamassassin 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded

Re: Best way to upgrade a single app

2003-08-21 Thread Darik Horn
I do this with pinning. 1. Make this your /etc/apt/preferences file: # /etc/apt/preferences -- The APT preferences configuration. # Run 'man apt_preferences' for more information. # # This file tells APT to use packages from the stable distribution by # default, but allows packages from other di

Re: Best way to upgrade a single app

2003-08-20 Thread Ken Bloom
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 03:50:11 +0200, David Corbin wrote: > I have a production system, that I do NOT want to migrate to > testing/unstable. But, I would like to upgrade one particular package > (spamassassin, in this case) to a more recent version. > > What is the recommended way of doing this? S

Re: Best way to upgrade a single app

2003-08-20 Thread Bob Proulx
David Corbin wrote: > I have a production system, that I do NOT want to migrate to testing/unstable. > But, I would like to upgrade one particular package (spamassassin, in this > case) to a more recent version. Since it is spamassassin you are ready to go with Duncan's backport area. Put this

Re: Best way to upgrade a single app

2003-08-20 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030821 10:45]: > I have a production system, that I do NOT want to migrate to testing/unstable. > But, I would like to upgrade one particular package (spamassassin, in this > case) to a more recent version. > > What is the recommended way of doing this?

Best way to upgrade a single app

2003-08-20 Thread David Corbin
I have a production system, that I do NOT want to migrate to testing/unstable. But, I would like to upgrade one particular package (spamassassin, in this case) to a more recent version. What is the recommended way of doing this? Should I just download and build the upstream package? Can pinn